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Watch this YouTube video live, 18 Years of Beach Poets 08/31/08, Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Childhood Memories 2” from her poetry show “Years in Poetry”, + her poems “Climbing Trees” and “Childhood Memories 5” from her poetry show “Poems on the Beach”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v2” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Childhood Memories 2” from her poetry show “Years in Poetry”, + her poems “Climbing Trees” and “Childhood Memories 5” from her poetry show “Poems on the Beach”, all from her performance art poetry collection book “Chapter 38 v2” live at Recycled Reads 7/21/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Childhood Memories two I was in the basement, the playroom that’s where all my toys were, you see and Sheri was with me and we were playing house or maybe it was office, we did that instead a lot of the times. I had old forms that businesses were throwing away, we had two desks, dead calculators my sister even made a switchboard for me well, we were playing grown-up, whatever the specifics were, I don’t remember. Why do children want to grow up anyway? Because it’s a different kind of pain, I think. Well, we were playing this make-believe, when I proceeded to go the the toy chest, pull out my sister’s old communion veil, and walk around the pool table in the center of the room, take a step, feet together, take a step, feet together. What are you doing? she asked. Getting married, I answered. Chris Caravette and I were getting married, I said. Chris was a friend of my sister’s, you see, an older man, in high school, unlike us poor slobs who were still children. and she attended the wedding, and I threw her the bouquet, and she caught it, just like she was supposed to do, and when the whole thing was over I walked my imaginary groom to the corner of the room and put away the veil, and that’s when she took the veil, put it on, and acted like she was getting married, too. What are you doing? I asked. Getting married, she answered. To who? I asked. To Chris Caravette, she answered. And we argued and argued, but I just married him, you’re not supposed to do that, and before you knew it we were in a shouting match. Why did we want to grow up anyway? Because we wanted a different kind of pain, I think. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.