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Watch the YouTube video of JUST Escaping Every Cage in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets” |
Watch the YouTube video of JUST Escaping Every Cage from the lip cam in the live feature 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “Beach Poets” |
Watch the YouTube video of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again in the 07/03/11 Beach Poets “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature |
Watch the YouTube video of Escaping Every Cage and Labeled Me Again from the lip cam live 07/03/11 at Chicago’s “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 the YouTube video Live in Chicago at the Café |
See feature-length YouTube video 07/05/11 of Janet Kuypers performing her poetry @ Chicago’s the Café |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 07/05/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, with poems and her Close Cover Before Striking poems |
Listen to a DMJ Art Connection release of music to this poem, read by Oz Hardwick |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escaping Every Cage 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Escaping Every Cage 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps) |
See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Black & White filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Posterize filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Sepia Tone filter). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Every Cage” (with her mini-poem “Labeled me Again” inside it) and her haiku poem “hold” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Moonlight” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/25/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Every Cage” (with her mini-poem “Labeled me Again” inside it) and her haiku poem “hold” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Moonlight” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Poetry Aloud” 8/25/18 (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
Escaping Every CageListenJanet Kuypers 01/14/11
I felt caged in that tiny Windsor hotel room
that’s when he struck
I managed to break free
strangers offered to help me
I had to get so far away, ###
when I couldn’t take being trapped at work
now, I know a car can be a cage
I was free for that split second of time ###
when I was in the hospital for weeks please don’t track me
when I was able to walk, ###
when I was a child,
and so as I grew older ###
I have always loved the water
when I get closer to water
but even when I could let go in the water ###
one day
I wanted to face it all
so I went down to the shoreline looked for that Island of mine
the water at the shoreline lapped over my feet
I kept searching my Island fell into the ocean ###
everything from my past disappeared ###
that day, ###
we all have our cages
as I sit in my cage right now
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