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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v343 3/24 cc&d issue/book “Clear Lake” poems “Burning Building” (+ showing show image), “Mixing Metaphors” (+ showing show image), & “Timing is Everything” to start her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Samsung S9 camera & GLITCH; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Mixing Metaphors Janet Kuypers 04/14/98 a heart is supposed to mean romance but the deep dark red suggests lust the cupid suggests true love anew but a child knows only dependency love hits you like a ton of bricks and you only hurt the ones you love I keep hearing of all these conflicts and I’m trying to make sense of it all and I’m mixing my metaphors now I’m mixing my cocktails on a saturday night throw love in with vodka and lime and a little cointreau and you have an absolutely perfect martini, well that’s what I hear so I keep drinking and mixing and drinking and trying you know, I’ve heard that for an added kick, keep in the love but add just a splash of lust the way that deep red heart of romance suggests so much more than candy and flowers because really, when it comes down to it, when you get all those metaphors together even though they seem to mean so many different things, well, when you get the right martini recipe, well, every ingredient is so necessary lust and love and all that other good- tasting stuff that goes down so easy well, every ingredient is necessary in that perfect drink because everything seems to come together so well and everything suddenly means so much even if it’s only a drink and even if it’s only a cheesey metaphor and suddenly that’s okay Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.