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“Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17 chapbook
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“Drop the Bomb” 4/30/17
of all of the short Janet Kuypers poems she read from her live 4/30/17 reading in Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb (plus one bonus poem).
video See YouTube video from 4/30/17 of Janet Kuypers performing her “Drop the Bomb” poems for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with control, earth, enjoy, unbounded, Just Thinking About It, Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, Marne Rifle Poem, No Thank You, He makes me Think about These Things, (and you could hold me), & From Words to Wars (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
video See Facebook live video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (from a Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone).
video See YouTube video on 4/30/17 of the first part of Janet Kuypers’ “Drop the Bomb” poem series she read for Austin’s 2017 Poetry Bomb, with the ending of Kick Someone Out, Lades and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Exhaling Toxic Fumes, Jumping from the Mausoleum, Just to be On the Safe Side, Nobody Finds Me, Bored the Night Before 9/11, energy, errors, rescue, This is Only a Test, You, Only Searching, Ugly Babies need the Most Love, Bimbo, Good Escape, Goth Girl Photographer, Koala Porn, Occupy, On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole, On This Ride, and Marne Rifle Poem (facebook live video with a Threshold filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poems “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “Violence There”, and “Quibbling over Religion” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (filmed from a Sony camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poems “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “Violence There”, and “Quibbling over Religion” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony camera; Posterize filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poems “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “Violence There”, and “Quibbling over Religion” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony camera; Sepia Tone filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/14/17 reading her poems “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “Violence There”, and “Quibbling over Religion” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” outside the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina in Buenos Aires (Sony camera; Threshold filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from her book &“(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” her poems “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “origin, from the macro to the micro”, and “Queen of Multimedia for a reason”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from her book &“(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” her poems “Jumping from the Mausoleum”, “origin, from the macro to the micro”, and “Queen of Multimedia for a reason”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Jumping from
the Mausoleum

Janet Kuypers
3/10/16

When I was young
I sang at our church,
and as a female teen
I was a little peeved
that I could never
become a priest.

But as a teenager
with nothing to do,
one night
me and a few friends
went to the local cemetery
once it got dark, brought along
a couple of white sheets.

Now, this was
a small cemetery
in a small town,
it didn’t have
high fences or gates.

So, we just walked
into the graveyard at night,
and we waited
by the mausoleum
until we saw a car
coming down the long road
from a distance.

That’s when
I’d get on the roof,
throw a sheet over my body,
and when the car
would get closer,
just as it was making
a turn near the cemetery,
that’s when I’d jump
to the ground
in the darkness.

My arms were out;
I was covered
with a white sheet.

And we’d laugh,
wondering if they thought
they’d seen a ghost.

I mean,
this is what
we’d do for fun,
teenagers with nothing to do
in the middle of nowhere.

But my dad
heard what happened,
and he asked me
the next morning
if I knew anything
about what happened
at the cemetery the night before.
I don’t even remember
what I answered,
but as far as I know,
we weren’t doing
anything illegal,
no one was hurt...

And it’s still kind of funny
to imagine
how those drivers reacted,
wondering what they saw
when they were driving
down a lonely road
by a cemetery;

did the think
they saw a spirit.

Ah well,
the church didn’t want
a female priest.
I suppose
it’s for the best
that the church
wasn’t suited for me.
I had more fun
making people
look toward the dead
and question what they see.




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