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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem of independence or freedom live 6/10/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem of independence or freedom live 6/10/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/1/17 poetry show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” in Austin, with her poems “fader, his mädchen and the Führer”, “of independence or freedom”, “Xerostomia”, and “Utopia never happened” (with background music from Janet’s electric bass and bow, then the HA!Man of South Africa) (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/1/17 poetry show “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” in Austin, with her poems “fader, his mädchen and the Führer”, “of independence or freedom”, “Xerostomia”, and “Utopia never happened” (with background music from Janet’s electric bass and bow, then the HA!Man of South Africa) (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download all of the poems from the free chapbook “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” of the poems she performed in her 7/1/17 “Our Cultural Independence and Achieving Global Freedom” poetry feature/show, including both classic and new poems “fader, his mädchen and the Führer”, “of independence or freedom”, “Xerostomia”, and “Utopia never happened”.

of independence                 or freedom Janet Kuypers 5/31/15 So it seems you cram us in here like we’re sardines. How many of us have you crammed in here before you send us on our way? Strap us in, make sure we don’t get any strange ideas of independence or freedom (‘cause really, you wouldn’t want us to think for ourselves)... Strap us in, compartmentalize us — but the thing is, you thought I was just like everyone else, that I’d just sit back and take it. These sardines around me seem totally complacent — what have you told them to make the so subservient? Well, maybe you didn’t get it before but I’ll take a sledgehammer to your plans. I’ll shatter that glass ceiling and that two-way mirror you watch us through. I don’t care where you think you’re taking us, and I no longer care if you’re sending us away. I didn’t sign up for this ride, and being crammed in here is making me nauseous. Don’t make me throw up before I start my revolt, because whether or not you think we’re sardines, and want cram us away like we’re nothing, just remember: I’m bigger than my ego lets on and I’ll take whatever makeshift weapon I can find, to break free of how you think we should be.

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