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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 video camera for simultaneous television broadcast on stage; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 7/2/16 show “Voting for Change” at Expressions 2016: Poets Parliament! in Austin reading her poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit) (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
Voting for Change chapbook
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Voting for Change
containing the poems True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit), Orders, The State of the Nation (2016 edit), Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit), and a Great American (2016 edit)

a Great American
(2016 edit)

Janet Kuypers
started 3/16/05, edited 8/24/05 & 8/26/05, edited for 7/2/16 show 6/23/16

When listening to Sean Hannity,
the talking head,
the Republican pundit,
I hear him say to all veterans,
“you’re a great American.”
Then other people
later on his show
would say that he is a great American.

And it becomes like a contest sometimes,
where everyone who supports
                Sean Hannity on his show
is calling each other a great American.

And I’m thinking:
he thanks veterans
because they fought in a war
and protected our country.
And I’m thinking,
we thank people
for finding a loophole to legally kill people,
even if it’s in a war that we don’t support,
a war not defending our country
but killing our people nonetheless...

Then again, we haven’t even been in wars —
only Congress can declare war,
and they haven’t done that
since World War Two.

Yeah, Sean Hannity thanks veterans
because they fought in a war
and protected our country,
but he also calls anyone a great American
only because they agree with him.

You can elevate anyone to that tall pedestal,
idolize them, call them a great American,
as long as they support the kakistocracy...

Hey, we’re Americans,
we’ve proclaimed ourselves to be the best...
We don’t idolize anyone
except ourselves —
so maybe it’s time we all start thinking
                the Sean Hannity way
and proclaim ourselves all
to be great Americans again.


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