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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield 8/19/13 at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon, Film Age - Older)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Samsung)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading poems Enough’s Enough, My Kind of Town, Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield, and Foreign Farmer live in Chicago at Waiting4the Bus 8/19/13 (Canon)

See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterized)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ this poem, potential Tag Team poems and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield” and “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”@ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera, and posted on Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield” and “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera, and posted on Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Burn it In (reading the end edit)”, “Too Far (2020 edit)”, “The Truth is Out There”, “Walking Home from School”, “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “One Summer Traveled” from the from the cyberwit.net 2021 Janet Kuypers poetry book “Eternal Never Ending Now” 3/3/21, during the usual 1:00-3:00 PM CST time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v207 5/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “I wrote this in the dark” poems “Sulfur” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield”, and “Revelation One: One-Four” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”) during her “Poetic License 5/7/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream, filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield Janet Kuypers 7/29/13 On the Indonesian island Jawa large turtle skeletons litter the plains, because after they come in from the ocean to lay their eggs, swarms of wild dogs there all got together and pounced. Those wild dogs flip the turtles over, and strip them all from their shells before they eat them alive. So if you go to the plains on Jawa, you’ll see what looks like skeletal remains — and if your eyes are blurred, you’ll swear you’re seeing a battlefield. Because we cannot forget that life is a constant avoidance of death: because many of those wild dogs who killed the turtles are prey to the tiger, who later pounses up on them. This is the cycle of life, because every birth is a prelude to death. Remember this. Don’t forget. When people are young, they’re sure they’re invincible, only because the beat the odds. But everyone gambles, we call it life, but you have to remember, the house always wins. Everybody thinks they’re ahead, and they forget to cut their losses — because most of the time, even if someone’s lived a long life, are they still happy? Really?

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