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Watch the YouTube video live in Chicago 2/16/08 at Mercury Cafe (2:02)

Enjoy the full Internet Archive video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy the full YouTube video (14:16) of Janet Kuypers performing her poems “addict”, “The Cycle”, “Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer”, “Robert”, “Falling From the Sky”, & “Terrorism Intelligence” live @ Chicago’s Mercury Cafe on 2/16/08 in her “1989-2007 Mega Poetry” feature (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Robert, I Have Learned and Amber Beads 7/31/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

Robert I stand in a room full of strangers leaning against a wall a wallflower but I was content with knowing no one with knowing you beer glass in hand you introduce me to the vast assortment of drunken fools you call your friends and I stand there merely happy to be by your side a stranger intoxicated to the point of being comatose tells me I’m pretty but I really don’t care because I have you you are all I need as the rest of the party imbibes to no end and you take yourself down the road to oblivion I stay leaning leaning against the wall and I watch you sing a song with your buddies laugh at the stupidest jokes eat dog food and I keep thinking that this was all I needed to be happy you seemed to be all that mattered in the world to me how was I to know that I was leaning against the wall because you gave me no support Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.