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Watch the YouTube video of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

Watch the YouTube video of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 07/03/11 at Beach Poets from the live feature “a Very Goth Beach Party”

See feature-length YouTube video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Panasonic Lumix).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix camera; Threshold).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat Me Alive”, “Anderson” and “One Summer Traveled” from her book “Give Me The News” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix; Edge Detection).

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” 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; Sepia).

Eat Me Alive Janet Kuypers 01/14/11 I had a dream I woke up in a sewer my clothes were wet from the filthy water it felt like something was pulling me down into the filth as I worked harder and harder to just stand and I thought how did I get here? who put me here? how on earth can I get out of here? who drove me to this point? I felt the slimy, filthy walls of this coffin-like cave as I was trying to find a ledge for support trying to find any way out the noise from people walking above ground was muffled when I heard the rats coming along with the water from down the tunnel I turned in the darkness to run until I tried to take a turn and was wedged in the concrete slabs I was stick in the sewer and the rats would eat me alive Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.