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Watch this YouTube video (1:00) read w/ Jenene Ravesloot live 05/17/11 at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video from the intro to the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, and her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, & her short story Stalker

See YouTube video of two mini-features at the 05/17/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, 1st of her poems End of an Empire, Escape my Brain Somehow, Elephants Carry the World, one by one, the beech trees fell, Before it Occurred to Me, then of her short story Stalker (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers mentioning her poem “Evicted Today”, then reading her 3 poems “Egg Drop Soup”, “Quibbling over Religion” and “Before it Occurred to Me” 8/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers mentioning her poem “Evicted Today”, then reading her 3 poems “Egg Drop Soup”, “Quibbling over Religion” and “Before it Occurred to Me” 8/21/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before It Occurred to Me” and “Refuse in a Single Church” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Before It Occurred to Me” and “Refuse in a Single Church” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

Before it Occurred to Me Janet Kuypers 03/29/11 as the extra kitchen cleanser mixed with the laundry detergent i spilled on the floor before the fumes rose i opened a window turned on a fan coughed before it occurred to me that i could mix these cleaning fluids at just the right time and leave him trapped here to this fate as he has trapped me here for countless years no, i’m no Nazi no, i’m not evil i’m a woman and sometimes after you’ve spent years breathing these fumes you finally decide when enough is enough Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.