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See Facebook video of Janet Kuypers listening to 5 Towns Radio (based in the U.K.) on January 26th, 2020 (or 1/26/20, or 20200126), where host Trevor Wainwright hosted a show highlighting a reading by Oz Hardwick of her poem “Everything Was Alive And Dying (Oz Hardwick edit)” to music from Dave Jackson of the DMJ Art Connection, along with commentary about both Oz and her, as well as details about the significance of this poem (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers listening to 5 Towns Radio (based in the U.K.) on January 26th, 2020 (or 1/26/20, or 20200126), where host Trevor Wainwright hosted a show highlighting a reading by Oz Hardwick of her poem “Everything Was Alive And Dying (Oz Hardwick edit)” to music from Dave Jackson of the DMJ Art Connection, along with commentary about both Oz and her, as well as details about the significance of this poem (Samsung S9 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Everything Was Alive And Dying (Oz Hardwick edit)” from the U.K. 5 Towns Radio reading at the end of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Everything Was Alive And Dying (Oz Hardwick edit)” from the U.K. 5 Towns Radio reading at the end of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Everything Was Alive And Dying (Oz Hardwick edit) Janet Kuypers (on U.K. 5 Towns Radio 1/26/20) I had a dream the other night Then I walked a little farther And I walked deeper in to the forest managed to get away from the picnic tables and outhouses that lined the forest edges the roaring cars gave way to the rustling of tree branches the crackling of fallen leaves under my step when the wind tunneled through the wind whistled and sang as it flew past the bark and leaves I walked listened to the crack of dead branches under my feet and I felt a branch against my shoulder I looked up and I could hear the trees speak to me, and they said thank you for letting the endangered animals live here amongst us we do think they’re so pretty and it would be a shame to see them go and thank you for recycling paper because you’re saving us for just a little while longer we’ve been on this planet for so long embedded in the earth we do have souls, you know you can hear it in our songs we cling with our roots we don’t want to let go and I said, but I don’t do much, I don’t do enough and they said we know but we’ll take what we can get and I woke up in a sweat so tell me, David Cameron so tell me, Nick Clegg so tell me, George Osborne so tell me, Caroline Spelman if you woke up from that dream would you be in a sweat, too? Serves us right... You know my motives aren’t selfless I know that these things are worthwhile in my life everything is linked here we destroy our animals so we can be wasteful and violent we destroy our plants we destroy our earth we’re even destroying our air we wreak havoc on the soil, on the atmosphere we dump our wastes into the lakes we pump aerosol cans and exhaust pipes and you tell me I’m extreme and these animals and forests keep calling out to me the oceans, the wind and I’m beginning to think that we just keep doing it because we don’t know how to stop and deep inside we feel the pain of all that we’ve killed and we try to control it by popping a chemical-filled pain-killer we live through the guilt by taking caffeine, nicotine, morphine and we keep ourselves thin with saccharin and we keep ourselves sane with our alcohol poisoning and when that’s not enough maybe a line of coke maybe shoot ourselves in the head in front of the mirror in the master bedroom or maybe just take some pills walk into the garage, turn on the car and just fall asleep in the wild you have no power over anyone else now that we’re civilized we create our own wild maybe when we have all this power the only choice we have is to destroy ourselves and so we do

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