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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13) live 12/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C) |
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Out of Place (dreams 12/3/13) from the book Need to Know Basis (extended edition) live 1/7/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon video camera) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the Café Gallery open mic & Patrick Hurley show 1/7/15 at Gallery Cabaret’ in Chicago, INCLDING THIS POEM |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)” and “You Are a Force” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)” and “You Are a Force” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)Janet Kuypers12/4/13
I was leaving one of my fallback hangouts in Chicago
I apparently was there alone, but I ran into someone I was once
attempted to talk, to be cordial, almost in an attempt to rekindle out of place).
As we were leaving to go to our separate cars, to go
I asked what she was doing later, and she said she couldn’t,
where her children were, she just cut me off and told me
She then looked at the rows of Chicago houses on the block
with flat roofs, this neighborhood was always my favorite place
like this, and she finally said that she couldn’t live like this.
can’t feel it, but anything can come sliding off that floor.”
off a slanted window awning and falling into the plant bed
into the folds of greenery. I don’t know if the colorful bird #
You see, we were once friends, we used to be close, we laughed
But I know how morally different we are. She could be cordial, even if we tried, I know we’d never get that friendship back.
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