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of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “UnreadBeach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.

Excuses to Ignore me

Janet Kuypers
twitter-length poem 5/6/12
video

It’s hard to sell my wares
when half the people here
don’t even speak English.
Sometimes a bilingual daughter
will try to translate,
but most of the time people
are pleased with any excuse
to ignore me and be on their way.

Excuses to Ignore me
(poetry with no spaces)

Janet Kuypers
“two tweets” twitter-length poem5/6/12
It’shardtosellmywares
whenhalfthepeoplehere
don’tevenspeakEnglish.
Sometimesabilingualdaughter
willtrytotranslate,
butmostofthetimepeople
arepleasedwithanyexcuse
toignoremeandbeontheirway.


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