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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under Constant Supervision live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under Constant Supervision live 9/4/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Under Constant Supervision 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 Under Constant Supervision live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterized)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Under Constant Supervision 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/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved Me”, “Under Constant Supervision” and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” for her “Revealed” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17, where she read her poems “Elephants Carry the World”, “Update 2011 on the Man who Loved Me”, “Under Constant Supervision” and “You’ve Left Me on Siesta Beach” for her “Revealed” book reading @ Austin’s Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Under Constant Supervision Janet Kuypers 9/4/13, written after the Ariel Castro hung himself I kept them trapped for so many years I’d go to church, no one suspected when they got out they persecuted me and now I sit here, square room, metal bars I suppose now I’m the one that’s trapped the single light above glares down at me if I get as far as I can from that one white light, my long shadow stretches toward infinity that shadow of my life seems so long but I can still see the end, as clear as today # I won’t complain to them they’ll never know what it’s like to be persecuted like this they keep me in protective custody they check on me every thirty minutes but I’m not on suicide watch if I was, I’d be under constant supervision I know they won’t give me a rope I’ll have to be careful so they won’t see that a bed sheet’ll do even if they only give me thirty minutes

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