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This poem was also performed Live at the Cafe, and that track is now available in a 3 CD set that you can order at any time from iTunes.

Listen live to this track live from the 6/7/05 Chicago performance art show {Stripped}.

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Watch this YouTube video (2:12) from the Chicago performance art show {Stripped} live 6/7/05

see the entire performance of {Stripped} live 6/7/05 in Chicago, via the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Marry Me... Whatever You Are” and “Universe... Now in Color”, then singing Janet & John’s blues song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all performed from her book “Say Nothing” live 3/4/18 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperssinging #janetkuypersmusic

marry me... whatever you are I have gay friends who considered leaving this country because George Bush was re-elected hits to Canada’s web sites for immigration skyrocketed after the election results came in and I thought, hey, a president may have some problems, but that’s no reason to desert your home but they were sure after this election that same-sex partner rights would never be granted to them I mean, when one person is ill and in the hospital the other has no rights to be there for them and I thought, if Bush was trying to appeal to a vast majority of people, he’d be good for everyone, right? I even heard Bush say that rights should be given to same-sex partners, even if they don’t call it “marriage” and I thought, well, it might sound rude, but he’s gotta respect the red-neck back-ass country folk in this country too and they only believe in man and woman marriages while screwing the animals at the farm but at least he was going to give same-sex couples rights, that’s a good sign, isn’t it? but then I heard that Republicans want to make a constitutional amendment defining marriage they wanted to define something that is not the governemtn’s business (then again, they make enough laws now that overstep the bounds of any rational government already) Then fourteen states made laws defining marriage as only between a man and a woman okay, I’m beginning to see why some of my friends are worried All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.