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See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of old school and high-tech monuments (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of old school and high-tech monuments (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem old school and high-tech monuments live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 2/1/17 25 minute poetry reading at Austin’s Half Price Books, with her poems “old school and high-tech monuments”, “extinct on planet earth”, “Other Souls”, “Open Book”, “Mapping the Way to True Love”, “Years, Centuries, Eons”, “Zenith of the Night Sky”, and “just one book” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v340 12/23 cc&d issue/book “Blackbirds, Lyrebirds, WeaverBirds” poems “Reduced To Now” (+ show image 1), “It Hurts in the Bones, 2015 edit” (+ show image ), & “old school and high-tech monuments” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (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 live from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

old school and high-tech monuments Janet Kuypers 3/26/15 People stop to tell me they are sorry about my mom. One woman hugged me and said, “they always take the good ones” — because you’d think she had gone through enough in her life for crimes she didn’t commit, so... Yeah, they always take the good ones. It is unfair. It’s completely wrong. Someone has to be held accountable. She was one of the good ones, and I hate you for taking her this way — I don’t care who you are, you, who leaves me here to write until my fountain pen runs dry. It becomes a mantra. Record her stories. Record her praises. I will sit at my computer, slam my hands, my fingers against that keyboard because there has to be a record. I’ll share stories. I’ll write volumes. Book after book with traces of her will infiltrate libraries and online book stores. I’ll stand at every mountain peak, sing her praises, I’ll give people copies of these words because as I said, there has to be a record. And when the pens are gone, I’ll prick my skin, spill my blood into words onto pages — that is what these words mean. When my computer is obsolete, when the Internet is dead, I’ll ram mallet to stone to chisel these words, create monuments to you. You wanna see a record? Just know that civilizations aeons from now will see these testaments from salvaged libraries and carved from stone, and live for these words. Trust me. ### We live in a world where everything speeds by in six second increments. The world says our youth has Attention Deficit Disorder because we cram a billion things down their throats instantaneously with every groundbreaking gadget to get all that info that much faster. ...So wait a minute, why worry so much about the word when sometimes the message brings the meaning? Then fine, time to get high tech. Let’s start with a haiku, and make it a six second vine. there has to be a record. her existence makes trees take root, flowers bloom, so nature’s beautiful. Things are beautiful when you speak the truth, and hey, that could be a twitter poem post too... I’ll put these writings in web pages, make them free downloadable PDF files, post them on Facebook. I’ll go old school and print them in a magazine and a collection book too... I’ll use every resource at my disposal to blanket this planet with these words. Because as I said, there has to be a record. When a life that beautiful comes and goes, the world needs to stand up at attention and pay their respects.

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