At the beginning of the open mic at “the Café Gallery” at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 9/12/12, Janet Kuypers broke the ice and started the evening by reading poems as if she were just off work and waiting in line at a grocery store talking on her cell phone to someone (before attending the open mic), because people can often hear the most interesting stories from strangers out in public when people overhear these “grocery store stories”...

Janet Kuypers performs many short poems together in
Grocery Store Stories

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of Kuypers’ “Grocery Store Stories” 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Poverty in America
as if she were having a conversation with someone
on her cell phone, in “Grocery Store Stories”

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Guantanamo Bay
as if she were having a conversation with someone
on her cell phone, in “Grocery Store Stories”

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Quenching Anybody’s Thirst
as if she were having a conversation with someone
on her cell phone, in “Grocery Store Stories”

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Y Chromosome Missing
as if she were having a conversation with someone
on her cell phone, in “Grocery Store Stories”

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Hunt the Game
as if she were having a conversation with someone
on her cell phone, in “Grocery Store Stories”

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

Janet Kuypers performs her poem
Moros y Christianos
as if she were having a conversation with someone
on her cell phone, in “Grocery Store Stories”

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

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of Kuypers reading this poem 9/12/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

Added Bonus:

the open mic 9/12/12
at the Café Gallery

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of Kuypers’ open mike 9/12/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus her poetry, including all of “'Grocery Store Stories”