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Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) live at Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest , in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 6/25/11 |
See the full YouTube video of Striking with Nature and Humanity at Trunk Fest, live 6/25/11, with this writing |
Download the chapbook with this writing in Striking with Nature and Humanity |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” (originally performed in the IPB show), “Ruminating” (originally performed in the “Celebrating with Song” show), “Guilt” and “Dreams Turned Into Nightmares” (originally performed in the Evanston “Striking with Nature and Humanity” show), all read from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Update 2011 on the Man Who Loved Me” (originally performed in the IPB show), “Ruminating” (originally performed in the “Celebrating with Song” show), “Guilt” and “Dreams Turned Into Nightmares” (originally performed in the Evanston “Striking with Nature and Humanity” show), all read from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56; Sepia). |
dreams turned into nightmaresJanet Kuypersedited from 1994 prose 06/23/11 Based on the 1994 short story publisahed in her 6" x 9" ISBN# book Close Cover Before Striking
Analyze this.
You don’t care about your work.
God, why does it always feel like this?
Why are there times like this when you feel so alone?
Look at the dishes pile up.
Why does everything have to hurt you so much? Why do you go through this?
Oh, don’t even try to daydream It won’t stop, not until you do.
Can you resign yourself to this?
What is the good of anything that you’ve done? Try not to think of it. You’re so lonely.
All you’ve got left to you is your mind, When will it destroy you altogether?
When?
Why do you dream? Are you trying to escape reality?
I think you dream and dream
Pieces.
Can you create a new dream with what you have left?
But what the Hell do you need that hope for?
And those bad dreams,
You can’t face up to it, can you?
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