poem what we need in life, road ashes cigarette fire bitter lonely restless poem By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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(live at the Lake Demented Poets, Hendersonville 03/23/01

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performed live
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4:09, performed live for a CD recording, parts of the song What We Need In Life before the poem Fantastic Car Crash 05/19/07

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(3:30) live 08/05/07 at Beach poets

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(3:58) performed live at the Galapagos Islands 12/24/07 to people from South America, Canada, the U.S., and Austria (on a boat)

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live 05/29/10 just before the Indy 500 (Indianipolic, IN)

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live 05/29/10 just after the Indy 500 (Indianipolic, IN) on the race track

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live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of part four of the “40” show live at the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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of pt. 4 of the “40” show from camera 2 @ the Café in Chicago 06/22/10

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from camera #1 as a downloadable mp4 file, live at the Café w/ this piece 06/22/10, from the Internet Archive.

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(3:51) live 06/24/10 at Timothy O’Toole’s Pub, guitar by John Yotko

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“London”, “I am Not a Pretty Girl”, and “What We Need In Life”, live 07/08/10 at Timothy O’Toole’s Pub, w/ Janet Kuypers voalcs & John Yotko guitar

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(3:35) live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10

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(3:57, John Yotko on guitar) live 09/07/10 at Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing at Phyllis’ Musical Inn in Chicago

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of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago

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Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 06/25/11

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live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Edge Detection filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Sepia Tone filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Film Age (older) filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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with the Threshold filter, live 06/14/11 at the Café in Chicago

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live at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 06/29/11

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live in Severn Maryland (JK singing, JY guitar) 10/22/11

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live at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago, with John Yotko on guitar 12/18/11

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of Kuypers singinging this song at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

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of Kuypers singinging this Mm’s Favorite Vase song (tonight with the Second Axing) at the open mike 2/1/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ the Samsung cam)

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Café Ballou, thru the Waiting4the Bus open mike 6/4/12

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Never Did the Same, Before I Learned Better, Can’t Answer That One and Sorry Flowers) live in Chicago at Poetry “Love Letters” open mike 6/9/12 (Sony)

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while nterspersing 3 of her poems (Never Did the Same, Before I Learned Better, Can’t Answer That One and Sorry Flowers) live in Chicago at Poetry “Love Letters” open mike 6/9/12 (Samsung)

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

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of Kuypers singing What We Need in life (John on guitar) while interspersing 4 of her poems (Keep Them Apart, Got on the Road Again and Keep Driving) live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Samsung camera)

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of Kuypers performing this song (w/ John on guitar; original music by Warren Peterson) live 8/29/12 at the singer/songwriter night at the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (from the Sony)

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of Janet Kuypers singing her Mom’s Favorite Vase song What we Need in Life (John on guitar) live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading

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of Janet Kuypers’ interview and her reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 8/28/13 feature Interview to Poetry at Poetry Saloon at Noon (in the Lerner Auditorium at the Sulzer Public Library), ending with this song

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of Janet Kuypers singing her poem What we Need in Life in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

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of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

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w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers sings her original song What we Need in Life acapella live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers sings her original song What we Need in Life acapella live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 8/2/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 8/2/14 Beast Women audition in Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Sony, edge detection)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Canon, posterize)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing a mix of her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash in her 9/21/14 Beast Women Rising show performance at Chicago’s the Den Theatre (Sony, edge detection)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her song What we Need in Life and her poem Fantastic Car Crash live 9/24/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

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of Kuypers singing this song What we Need in Life7/22/15 at the Café Gallery (which was filmed from the Canon fs200)

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of Kuypers singing this song What we Need in Life7/22/15 at the Café Gallery (which was filmed from the Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a capella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped/saturated w/ sci-fi filter).

See YouTube video 9/11/15 of Janet Kuypers at the Chicago’s Roots Room reading her poems operation diligence and Looking fora Worthy Adversary, then singing her original song What we Need in Life, then reading her poem I dreamt about you last night, then covering the 1925 song (a cappella) Brother, Can you Spare a Dime, & finishing with her poem Under the Sea (Canon fs200, cropped & saturated).

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers singing her song What We Need In Life 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing poetry and song (with John on guitar) 12/13/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot), with her song What We Need In Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside the song),
X-rays and broken hearts, & the Burning.

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Nikon CoolPix S7000), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 3 songs (with John on guitar) 12/27/15 at the Austin music open mic B.B. Rover’s (Canon Power Shot), with her songs What We Need In Life and Made Any Difference and the Feedback song Vintage Wine.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life with her poem Fantastic Car Crash (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing 4 songs (with John on guitar) 1/29/16 at the Round Rock music open mic at the American Legion, covering Morrissey’s There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends, Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots are Made for Walking, the Chruch’s Under the Milky Way, & singing her MFV song What we Need in Life with her poem Fantastic Car Crash (this video was filmed from a Nikon Cool Pix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s Th Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Jane Kuypers (and John on guitar and some vocals) performing 7 songs 5/6/16 at Round Rock’s American Legion, covering Depeche Mode’s Th Bottom Line (w/ altered wedding chorus lyrics), Peter Gabriel’s Washing of the Water, her MFV song My Love for You will Stay the Same, flowing straight into George Michael’s Waiting (Reprise), the Eurythmics’ I Need You, her MFV song What we Need in Life, & ending with her poem in The Second Axing song Made Any Difference (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem The Things They Did To You, then sings her song What we Need in Life (with her poem Fantastic Car Crash inside) in the 2nd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/3/16 show “How Music is Poetic” at Expressions 2016: September Song! in Austin performing her songs/poems “What We Need In Life” with “Fantastic Car Crash” between verses 2 & 3, “Tin”, and “Made any Difference” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/3/16 show “How Music is Poetic” at Expressions 2016: September Song! in Austin performing her songs/poems “What We Need In Life” with “Fantastic Car Crash” between verses 2 & 3, “Tin”, and “Made any Difference” (Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersfeature

Download all of these songs & poems in the free PDF file chapbook
How Music is Poetic
containing the songs/poems
“What We Need In Life”,
“Fantastic Car Crash”,
“Tin”, and “Made any Difference”.

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of Janet Kuypers singing George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” with John on guitar live 11/6/16 at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s (Sony camera).

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of Janet Kuypers singing George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” with John on guitar 11/6/16 at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s (Canon P.S.).

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of Janet Kuypers singing George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” with John on guitar live 1/8/17 at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s (Canon PS).

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of Janet Kuypers singing George Michael’s song “Waiting (Reprise)”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” with John on guitar 1/8/17 at Austin’s B.B. Rover’s (Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 5/22/17 covering Ani DiFranco’s “I am Not a Pretty Girl”, then their poem/song “Made any Difference”, then Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” live at Austin’s B. D. Riley’s (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 5/22/17 covering Ani DiFranco’s “I am Not a Pretty Girl”, then their poem/song “Made any Difference”, then Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, then her MFV song “What We Need In Life” live at Austin’s B. D. Riley’s (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Writing Your Name” and song “What We Need In Life” after her 9/2/17 show “Energy with poetry and Music” at Expressions Poetry with Music! in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem “Writing Your Name” and song “What We Need In Life” after her 9/2/17 show “Energy with poetry and Music” at Expressions Poetry with Music! in Austin (Panasonic Lumix camera with a Sepia Tone filter).

what we need in life
(a song)
I don’t know where this highway’s taking me anymore        and
I don’t know the right lines to say
I don’t feel the things that you’re feeling
            down deep inside of you        but
I know this ain’t the way
nothing ventured
nothing gained
nothing changes
nothing stays the same
but you go your way
I go mine
maybe one day
we will find
what we need in life
what we need in life
I watch the ashes from your cigarette
            fall to the ground        and
I think this fire will die down
I think I now see what is happening here
            between us        and
I have to say good bye
nothing ventured
nothing gained
nothing changes
nothing stays the same
so you go your way
I go mine
maybe one day
we will find
what we need in life
what we need in life
I can’t stay bitter and lonely and restless anymore        and
I can’t be here with you
I see the red in your eyes and it scares me half to death        and
I’ll take this road alone
nothing ventured
nothing gained
nothing changes
nothing stays the same
you go your way
and I go mine
maybe one day
we will find
what we need in life
what we need in life

Copyright Janet Kuypers.
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may be reprinted without express permission.

See YouTube video 11/15/17 of Janet Kuypers singing the ending of the “What We Need In Life” chorus in English & German (on a boat crossing the Drake Passage, filmed from a Sony camera for use in a 2018 blog interview).

See YouTube video 11/15/17 of Janet Kuypers singing the ending of the “What We Need In Life” chorus in English & Romanian (on a boat crossing the Drake Passage, filmed from a Sony camera for use in a 2018 blog interview).

See YouTube video 11/15/17 of Janet Kuypers singing the ending of the “What We Need In Life” chorus in English & Serbian (on a boat crossing the Drake Passage, filmed from a Sony camera for use in a 2018 blog interview).

See YouTube video 11/15/17 of Janet Kuypers singing the ending of the “What We Need In Life” chorus in English & Spanish (on a boat crossing the Drake Passage, filmed from a Sony camera for use in a 2018 blog interview).

See YouTube video 11/15/17 of Janet Kuypers singing the ending of the “What We Need In Life” chorus in English & Tagalog (on a boat crossing the Drake Passage, filmed from a Sony camera for use in a 2018 blog interview).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing the ending of the “What We Need In Life” chorus in English & Tagalog (11/23/17 on a boat crossing the Drake Passage after talking to people from the Philippines, filmed from a Sony camera for use in a 2018 blog interview).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/4/18 singing her MFV song “What We Need In Life”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, & their poem/song “Made any Difference” live at Open Mic Night at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/4/18 singing her MFV song “What We Need In Life”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, & their poem/song “Made any Difference” live at Open Mic Night at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from the bar; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar 2/22/18 in their 2-hour live music show at Round Rock’s Craft & Racked Wine Bar. In this set, she sang Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, acoustically she sang most of the Eurythmics’ “Brand New Day” and then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, her song “In Love I Abide”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, the Smiths’ “London”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (joined w/ John vocals), Morrissey’s “There is a Place in Hell for Me and my Friends”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair”, the Church’s “Under the Milky Way”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, the Smiths’ “Ask”, Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, Erasure’s “How Many Times?” (joined w/ John vocals), the Smoking Popes’ “I Need You Around”, John Yotko’s “What I’ve Been through”, and Don McLean’s “American Pie” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera, filmed from a table; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pint erest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers with John on guitar 2/25/18 singing Paul Simon’s Kodachrome, Depeche Mode’s The Bottom Line {lowered voice, 2 voices, altered chorus lyrics}, the Smiths’ What She Said, & Janet’s MFV song “What We Need In Life” with her “Fantastic Car Crash” poem in it, @ Open Mic Night at Craft & Racked Wine Bar in Round Rock (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask”, with ‘books’ for ‘bombs’ lyrics changes (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera w/ a Threshold filter.)

See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (From a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & given a Posterize filter.)

See YouTube video 3/15/18 of Janet Kuypers with John Yotko on guitar in their 1-hour 45-minute “South-by Set” of music at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (one of the venues hosting 2018 SXSW events in Austin). In this set, she sang Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”, Depeche Mode’s “the Bottom Line” (both Janet and John singing, with altered chorus lyrics), her poem/John’s song “Made any Difference ”, the Queen song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, George Michael’s “Waiting”, Feedback’s “Devotion”, Leonard Cohen’s “Coming Back to You”, Ani DiFranco’s “I am not a Pretty Girl”, Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair ”, Hank Williams’ “I’m Free At Last”, Paul Simon’s “Slip Sliding Away”, the Beatles song “Yesterday”, and her song “In Love I Abide”. Then (waiting for John to switch from guitar to mandolin) Janet acoustically sang the beginning of her song “Why”; then she sang the R.E.M. song “You are the Everything” with John playing his mandolin. Going back to John playing his acoustic guitar, Janet then sang the Eurythmics’ “I Need You”, The The’s “Love is Stronger than Death”, George Michael’s “Waiting for that Day”, MFV’s “What We Need In Life”, Peter Gabriel’s “Washing of the Water”, Feedback’s “Vintage Wine”, MFV’s “My Love for You will Stay the Same”, Sinead O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds”, Don McLean’s “American Pie”, and they closed with the Smiths’ “Ask” (with books for bombs lyrics changes). (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & w/ an Edge Detection filter.)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well”, then sing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on acoustic guitar, then read her poem “People’s Lives Were at Stake”, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” to a live audience for National poetry Month (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500; appearing on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers in her 6/11/18 poetry show “Eleven” in Austin, with her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and then it was given a Threshold filter).

Read all of the poems from the Janet Kuypers poetry show in her 6/11/18 poetry chapbook for her show

“Eleven” containing her poems “Under the Sea”, “The Burning”, “Right There, By Your Heart (verses 2 & 6)”, “What We Need in Life”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “The Things They Did To You (5/8/18 edit)”, “Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)”, “Death is a Dog”, and “September 11, 2001”, “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, and “Observer’s Love Poem”.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Autumn (2017 Dripping Springs / Bahá’í Faith Center edit)”, & “Quell the Vibrancy”, then singing her song during Austin City Limits music weekend “What We Need in Life”, from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her song “What We Need in Life” with John on guitar during Austin City Limits music weekend, from her book “Chapter 48 (v2)” at “Poetry Aloud” 10/13/18 (from a Samsung S7 camera).

See this YouTube video of of Janet Kuypers, working at her desk, as John Yotko interrupted her to play guitar as she sang her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What We Need In Life” (Warren Peterson music and Janet Kuypers vocals), while also reading her poem “Fantastic Car Crash” during the song, for a future YouTube video release submission for NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert”, performing an original song while at your desk (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers, working at her desk, as John Yotko interrupted her to play guitar as she sang her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What We Need In Life” (Warren Peterson music and Janet Kuypers vocals), while also reading her poem “Fantastic Car Crash” during the song, for a future YouTube video release submission for NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” (performing an original song while at your desk). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet and John performing an impromptu music set at “Three Legged Goat” in Pflugerville, including the Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life”, their original song “Made any Difference”, the Eurythmics song “I Need You”, the George Michael song “Waiting (reprise)”, and the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds” (this video was zoomed in from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet and John performing an impromptu music set at “Three Legged Goat” in Pflugerville, including the Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life”, their original song “Made any Difference”, the Eurythmics song “I Need You”, the George Michael song “Waiting (reprise)”, and the Sinead O’Connor song “Black Boys on Mopeds”. (This performance was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera) #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging