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Really Do Drive
        like Madmen

Janet Kuypers
5/12/12

Honestly, you can’t drive
in this country.
They really do drive
like madmen.
So have somebody
drive for you,
but if you catch a taxi,
don’t think for a minute
you’ll keep this taxi alone.
The taxi driver
will stop the mini-van
until twelve to fifteen
passengers are inside,
and people are standing
on the ledges
of the open mini-vans
holding onto the open doors,
hanging out of the car and
holding on for dear life.
Motorcycle are even
taxis too, and kids
run motorcycle stands
at street corners,
to make sure no other
motorcycle taxis cut in.
So really, have somebody
drive you around,
because honestly,
you can’t drive here.
They really do drive
like madmen


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video See YouTube video
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.


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