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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi) and “Voyager” (written for the August 25, 2012 date NASA’s Voyager 1 started the Interstellar Mission into the unknown), and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” and “Voyager”, and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, “Value of What Money Does”, “Everyone is to Blame”, “Voyager”, “Use Your Mind”, “Exploited Color in Books”, “foretell” from the v174 “Drowning in the Darkness section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/25/20 for The Café Gallery 8/25/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Voyager Janet Kuypers 8/22/19, written commemorating the August 25, 2012 NASA Voyager 1 now Interstellar Mission into the unknown It’s frightening, exploring something for the first time. Getting up on your own two feet the first time, placing one foot in front of the other, keeping balance, walking. Turning the ignition of a foreign car, trying to check out every mirror and direction, shifting, and learning to drive. Swimming down to the bottom of the ocean to see sleeping creatures, and realize you’ve above a bed of sharks. What were you thinking, going down low when your goal is to go up high, to touch the sky, to learn to fly... though it’s a scary thing, exploring something for the first time. Looking out a tiny oval-cornered window at clouds ten thousand feet below as compressed air gives a hotel smell. Checking the altimeter when sitting in an airplane with no door, before you get up and walk to that gaping hole. When one President gave a decree to land man on the moon, no one knew how to do it — this was all uncharted land, and it literally was flying by the seat of their pants. So when you start getting good at sending objects into space, decide to send voyagers to the edges of our Solar System to learn about those outer planets. But after their work’s done, don’t try flying those behemoths back, so let’s just see how far they can go, and if they can make it to interstellar space. Maybe they might send us some all new data, but who knew how long transmissions would take to get to us. Would our ‘flying by the seat of our pants’ experiments even work, because as I said, we’ve never done this before, it’s frightening, for we still don’t know what we might find. We even made golden records with details about humanity in case these voyagers discover life, hoping they may decipher our coded messages, now traveling in interstellar space, long after humanity may even go extinct. Because as I said, it’s frightening, exploring something like this for the first time.

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