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Watch the YouTube video of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the house camera

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the house camera), including this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (C fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cfs), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There, She’s Going Home, and Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cps), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There, She’s Going Home, and Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (Lumix).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; Sepia).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L/Thresh).

See YouTube video live 10/21/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Under your Total Control”, “Quiet for a While” and “Gouge Out Their Eyes” from her book “Part of my Pain” at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a bookstore affiliated with the Austin Public Library (L; E.D.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Gouge Out Their Eyes” within her “This is a Poem About” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eliminating the Endangered Species List” (written on National Panda Day) and “Kind of Like a City” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Gouge Out Their Eyes” within her “This is a Poem About” chapbook and read from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eliminating the Endangered Species List” (written on National Panda Day) and “Kind of Like a City” at “Recycled Reads” in Austin 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Gouge Out Their Eyes Janet Kuypers (01/23/12) looking forward to my little ritual, I searched out my next victim and gain gratification by gaining total control over someone else looked forward to getting them alone and cutting out the top of their head driving my knife through their skull, cutting down to their fleshy intellect so I could scoop out their brains feel bits of the organ in my bare hands clear out their skull, make them hollow gouge out their eyes open their mouth wide so the world could see how empty my victims now were I didn’t do this often otherwise I might have been caught all these years of debasing someone weaker this was my little ritual and I was ready to share my secret with just the right person, to help me get rid of the remains to revel with me in this                 little game I play ### I found someone, I confided with them and they told me this was against their religion I begged, I pleaded and the only way they would join me is if they could take the skull and throw it from a building roof after we were done dismembering them you know, to further destroy the evidence and I agreed so we drank in the sewer and drew up our plan ### that may have been one of the last times I did this to someone, because it really was fun — in the middle of the night, when no one else was around — watching their hollow skull splatter on the ground I think it was closure, the final piece to this ritual where after so much destruction, I could say my work was done   (this is a poem about a pumpkin)

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