poem the self-knifing?, By Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Internet Chainsaw Relationship”, “the Perils of Lovemaking” and “The Self-Knifing?” in the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Lumix).

See YouTube video from 7/8/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Internet Chainsaw Relationship”, “the Perils of Lovemaking” and “The Self-Knifing?” in the Georgetown “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Sony).

the self-knifing?
dateline Gurnee, Illinois — this reporter
has been trying to get to the bottom
of this story, but local reports are that
a fight started at the bar Ustabee’s,
the once home of the music and poetry
open mic “Sing Your Life,” when painter
Zach Miller made drunken derogatory
remarks about a man’s girlfriend in the
bar. Newspaper reports are that the
man fought back, along with his cousin
and two to five other men. The News Sun
newspaper also reported that Zach pulled
his knife out of his boot to stab anyone,
but they retrieved the knife and
knifed Zach Miller with his own weapon.
After this reporter later interviewed
Mr. Miller, we found out that Zach
wasn’t wearing a boot, and his knife
was in his pocket. He later informed us
that he was knocked unconscious and
at point point there may have been
as many as seven people beating him,
after he was passed out. He went to
a second hospital in Skokie, Illinois,
because of the seriousness of his leg
being cut open with his own knife, in
addition to the amount of blood he lost.
Zach contends that other people took
his knife and stabbed him that fateful night.
The doesn’t explain how the perpetrators
were stabbed with the knife if they were
the sole offenders.
The bar owner claims that he tried to kill men
there, Zach admitted that he pulled the knife
in self-defense, and after he was attacked
and on the ground (after he successfully
stabbed three of the men, one in the lung),
someone pulled the knife from his grasp
and stabbed him in the leg.
Zach was later charged with unlawful use
of a weapon, a class 4 felony, while he still has
severed nerves and difficulties with his foot
because his leg was knifed with his own weapon.
Three other people were charged with
disorderly conduct, and it is reported that Zach
is confident that he will not have to face jail time
for his actions at the bar Ustabee’s,
now nick-named by friends “You Stabbed Me’s.”
but this story does go to show you
that even if you’re only in a suburb
of Chicago, it might not be the best
idea to carry a deadly weapon to bars.

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