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See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 6/10/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Questions and Tension, Shared Air & Us, Actually Touching at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then “Questions and Tension” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, and “ultimate connectivity: getting naked with nature” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 9/17/17 at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Panasonic Lumix).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knew I Had to be Ready”, then ““Questions and Tension” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, and “ultimate connectivity: getting naked with nature” from “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” 9/17/17 at Austin TX’s “Kick Butt Poetry” (Sony camera).

Questions and Tension Janet Kuypers 6/8/16 My stomach’s sort of in knots. I mean, I feel this tension — I know most people lose them as teens but I always kept my wisdom teeth. Apparently my mouth was big enough. Now, after all this time one tooth’s finally cracked, so they schedule me in for an extraction. An extraction. Even the name sounds messy for removing a bone from my body. So yeah, I’m feeling a bit nervous, asking questions like mad to the staff. Looking at x-rays, roots and nerves are straight, so they say don’t worry, then bring a big needle and tell me to open wide. And after they inject me over and over, I wait twice as long as they say. The doctor comes in close, tells me not to move, and I don’t know if it’s the drugs they shot me with, or if it’s that medic inches from my face breathing my air, exhaling into me, if that’s what’s making me feel even more dizzy. So he says don’t move, and he starts to tug. Pull. Even twist. But not thirty seconds pass and they say it’s over, as they give me gauze to stop the bleeding. It was over that quickly, they didn’t even give me any pain medication. And all I could think was that taking a bone from my body was far too easy. I mean, if you drugged someone enough, could you remove all of their teeth like that? Thirty two bones, just a little tugging, and to stop the blood use extra gauze. While you recover you can’t use straws ‘cause sucking will split the sores. I don’t know, maybe it was the drugs, maybe it was that dentist sharing my air and exhaling their waste down my throat that made me wonder if it’s that easy to pull out many little bones, all at once.

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