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See YouTube video of the poem just you, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem just you, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show “Love” (w/ John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 6 new love poems

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show “Love” (w/ John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 6 new love poems

Download these poems in the free chapbook “Love”, w/ poems read 4/10/15 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” show in Let Them Eat Chocolate (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her poem “Jumping, Flying” from the May-August 2018 cc&d issue collection book “Across the Wall”, her poem “You and I, Walking Through Georgetown” from the May-August 2018 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Windows of Remembrance”, and her “love” poems “Just You”, “Only Philosophy”, and her haiku “drowning”, from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her poem “Jumping, Flying” from the May-August 2018 cc&d issue collection book “Across the Wall”, her poem “You and I, Walking Through Georgetown” from the May-August 2018 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Windows of Remembrance”, and her “love” poems “Just You”, “Only Philosophy”, and her haiku “drowning”, from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Sepia Tone filter).

just you Janet Kuypers 4/7/15 when I met you I knew there was something about you I didn’t know what it was, but I had to find you to find out look in the bowels of the Chicago train stations to see your face stand on my toes, stretch tall, look for you in a crowded hall do a double-take when a motorcyclist or bicyclist speeds by If you have to, wear a mask, swim to the sharks in the Pacific climb the Alps, stand on a glacier, traverse the Great Wall keep looking — there has to be something about you I had no choice I had to find you but I realized that it wasn’t something about you at all I couldn’t describe what it was about you that made me need you because it wasn’t something about you at all it was just you

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