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Listen live (2:30) Or watch the YouTube video 05/10/11 at the Café in Chicago (in the ISBN# books Unknown and Sexism and Other Stories and in cc&d mag v220, the 05/11 issue)

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 05/10/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus the cover of I’m Free at Last & the poems And I’m Wondering & Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems Dreams 04/20/05 (knife fight), Dreams 09/08/07 and Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes) at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (from a Sony).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” (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 1/7/18 reading her poems “Dreams 03/11/04 (truck on truck)”, “Dreams 09/24/05 (a phone as a purse that matches my shoes)”, & “Dreams 12/24/05: Aeon Flux Crawl” from her book “When you Dream Tonight” live at “Recycled Reads” this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

a phone as a purse that matches my shoes (dreams 09/24/05) I don’t know what we were doing, but we were out on a street, I don’t know what street it was, and you had the back seat of the car pulled out, it was a big car, it wasn’t my car, but you were looking for something, I don’t know, but I noticed that there were peanuts and junk where the seat was. I don’t know, it looked like something was wrong with the car, but I don’t know what that had to do with pulling the row seats out of the car. Anyway, I was standing there, leaning against the car, I think I was wearing shorts, I think it was summer, I think once group of guys drove by looking at me, but I really didn’t care, and eventually you said we could go. I looked in the car and saw the seats there, and I asked if you got rid of the peanuts that were under the seat, and of course you didn’t, so I was just thinking that he put the seats on top of the food left there. But then I said to stop, because there was a yard sale along the street, there was a ton of stuff crammed into this little Chicago-styled yard, so you pulled over for me to get out, and you said you’d drive to park the car. So I looked at all of the crap they had for sale, and they have a telephone that was styled to look like a really cool old chrome toaster, it needed to be cleaned, but you could see the buttons for the phone in the front, and there was a rest area on top for the ear piece. But the ear piece was missing, so I was trying to ask about the ear piece, if you could just use another phone ear piece and plug it into the toaster-phone. It’s not like I’d be using a toaster-phone, it just looked excellent cool and was dirt cheap, like two bucks. Then, while I was waiting for an answer, I saw a phone that was designed like a big purse, and I was looking at it thinking that it matched a pair of shoes of mine, like a faux brown eel skin leather. Like I’d buy a phone because it was a purse and matched my shoes. I think I might have looked up and saw you waiting in the car. Like you like garage sales. You knew better than to join me. Copyright © 2005 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.