[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]


I Don’t Care

I’ve realized something about people
they’re cold
Cold as ice in a winter storm

People don’t care about other people

Only themselves

“Hello. How are you?”
Respond with anything other than “fine”
and you get a blank stare

as if they want to ask
“Why are you telling me this?
I don’t care.”

Why is it that when there is a car accident
others just drive by

Because they don’t care

I’ve realized something about people
they’re cold


Copyright Janet Kuypers.
All rights reserved. No material
may be reprinted without express permission.