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Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at Mediterranean Cafe in Berkeley CA 09/17/09

edit this poem in wandering words... rearrange the words... or make a new poem either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)!

Listen to the CD recording of this piece from the CD (used for the show) Changing Gears

Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

watch the complete video of Questions in a World Withough Answers live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

Watch the YouTube video (:31) live at Changing Gears 06/17/03

See the entire performance of the live show Changing Gears 06/17/03, hosted by the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video read live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers reading poems (including this poem) live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On the California Streets in the third round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem On the California Streets in the third round at the final Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/22/16 (Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, welcomed on stage by Thom, where she performed her poems “Didn’t Know What it Was”, “On the California Streets” and “Loggers” as a story 1/10/16 with music at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, welcomed on stage by Thom, where she performed her poems “Didn’t Know What it Was”, “On the California Streets” and “Loggers” as a story 1/10/16 with music at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (on a Canon Power Shot camera & given a Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “That Dress” from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”, then she read her poems “Sorry Flowers”, “on The California Streets”, and “Ways to Spend Your Money”, and then she sang her song “In Love I Abide” - all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then she read her poem “Only Voice He Could Hear” from the proof copy of the cc&d v284 23-year anniversary issue/book “Shining” to a live audience for National poetry Month (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/28/18 in Georgetown TX, read her poem “That Dress” from her book “Close Cover Before Striking”, then she read her poems “Sorry Flowers”, “on The California Streets”, and “Ways to Spend Your Money”, and then she sang her song “In Love I Abide” - all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then she read her poem “Only Voice He Could Hear” from the proof copy of the cc&d v284 23-year anniversary issue/book “Shining” to a live audience for National poetry Month (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 1-4/24 book “The Limits of Language” poems “Never Did the Same” (+ 9/10/02 show image), “A Match” (+ 6/17/03 show image), & “On the California Streets” (+ 6/17/03 show image) during her “Poetic License 5/5/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

on the california streets we were walking along Santa Monica Boulevard we passed a young homeless man, and he asked could you spare a hundred thousand dollars? and I thought, of course he won’t get it but of all the places in the world, this is the only place where he could get away with asking for it Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.