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of Janet Kuypers 5/18/13 reading this poem
Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale from the Jan./Feb. 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine, titled I Pull the Strings, live 2/26/14 at the open mic she hosts the Café Gallery (every other Wednesday at Gallery Cabaret) in Chicago (C)
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale live 7/25/15 on Chicago’s WZRD 88.3 FM radio (Cfs)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems one by one, the beech trees fell, Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale, and My Future Job Options 1/31/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Cps).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Floating Away with the Tide” and “erasure poem: corner stone for slavery” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Floating Away with the Tide” and “erasure poem: corner stone for slavery” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (Canon Power Shot SX60 camera with a Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in Prison” from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersinstagram
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “run faster”, “Why I’ll Never Get Married”, “Communication (2020 edit)”, “ways to spend your money” (done in an alternate voice), “Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale”, “Original Snowbirds”, and “Protecting Peace can Put you in PrisonEternal Bever Ending Now from the the cyberwit.net 137-page 5½" x 8½" poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Vegetarian Stands
by the Meat Sale

Janet Kuypers
5/6/12

it’s raining out,
and no one wants to be outside.
and if they do come here,
they just want to get the bare essentials
and get home as quickly as they can.
they surely don’t want to contend
with me, just trying to make a living.

a huge clock looms at the opposite wall.
i keep glancing at the time, and think
of the huge calendar looking over new york
in Atlas Shrugged, as everyone is reduced
to merely trudging through their days.

someone just wished me good luck,
because i think everyone would rather be
sleeping than here. and it’s true.

i just glanced at that clock again.
i’m only one eighth the way
through my day. and this woman
who has chosen to not have children
has to keep smiling despite the weather
and fawn over every passing child i see.
this vegetarian stands next to the sign
saying “hot ham” is the deli sale today,
as employees place baked and fried chicken
in packages for sale behind me.

i try to smile, because it’s my job,
even though it’s raining outside,
as the second hand on the clock clicks
more slowly today.


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