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Watch the YouTube video Live at the Cafe in Chicago 10/27/09

See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xerostomia”, “Afraid of Telling The Truth” and “Fifteen Gun-Toting Tweets” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 6/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xerostomia”, “Afraid of Telling The Truth” and “Fifteen Gun-Toting Tweets” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (from a Lumix camera).

Afraid of Telling The Truth I don’t know if I’m supposed to have a lot of thoughts jumping around in my head. I don’t know if I think about him too much, or if I’m supposed to think about him at all There are only so many hopes that you can basically have in life, and I’ve turned off most of my hopes I can be afraid of telling the truth, and if there’s anyone that can handle it, that can quote unquote “handle it,” well then, I guess that person would be me. So in this case, I suppose it’s irrelevant that I want you and that I need you too, and it’s probably irrelevant now that I want you to play along with this little part in my life, and that you should take all of my troubles away. My fear is that I’ll scare you away, I’ll scare you away if I tell you the truth So am I supposed to just sit here in silence and wait? Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.