poem Objectifiable, a poem about how women are degraded every time a man hollers at them or honks their horn at them By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Objectifiable live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem <Objectifiable live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Objectifiable live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Objectifiable live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, Edge Detection filter)

See a Vine video
of Janet Kuypers finding out she can still be Objectifiable 12/22/15 from men honking horns at her (Vine filmed from a Samsung, from Austin, Texas)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Changing Gears” chapter 14 poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Objectifiable” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Changing Gears” chapter 14 poem “True Happiness in the New Millennium” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her poem “Objectifiable” from the proof copy of the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” 8/5/18 at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (PL2500) reading her poems “Objectifiable” and “explaining what condoms are for” the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Women’s Very Existence” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her prose “Jeremy, or Stallion?” from the Janet Kuypers poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” at “Spoken and Heard” 9/2/18.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (PLT56) reading her poems “Objectifiable” and “explaining what condoms are for” the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “Women’s Very Existence” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth”, then her prose “Jeremy, or Stallion?” from the Janet Kuypers poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v1)” at “Spoken and Heard” 9/2/18.

Objectifiable
Janet Kuypers
9/3/13
I’ve experienced it
for I don’t know
how many years,
men degrading women.
When I was walking
down the street today,
a man in an ugly mini-van
stuck his head
out of his window
to holler for me
Wow,
lucky me.
I’m still
objectifiable.