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See YouTube video from 3/19/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Games We Play” and “erasure poem: a Declaration of Female Freedom” live at Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).
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See YouTube video from 3/19/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems “Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein”, “Games We Play” and “erasure poem: a Declaration of Female Freedom” live at Austin’s Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 4/1/17 poetry show “Erasure Poems” at “National Poetry Month” for Expressions in Austin reading her poems “the Meaning of Art”, “Corner Stone Against Slavery”, “a Declaration of Female Freedom”, “One of the Most Hated Women in America”, and “a Poetic History” (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 4/1/17 poetry show “Erasure Poems” at “National Poetry Month” for Expressions in Austin reading her poems “the Meaning of Art”, “Corner Stone Against Slavery”, “a Declaration of Female Freedom”, “One of the Most Hated Women in America”, and “a Poetic History” (filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 4/1/17 poetry show “Erasure Poems” at “National Poetry Month” for Expressions in Austin reading her poems “the Meaning of Art”, “Corner Stone Against Slavery”, “a Declaration of Female Freedom”, “One of the Most Hated Women in America”, and “a Poetic History” with train sounds (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 4/1/17 poetry show “Erasure Poems” at “National Poetry Month” for Expressions in Austin reading her poems “the Meaning of Art”, “Corner Stone Against Slavery”, “a Declaration of Female Freedom”, “One of the Most Hated Women in America”, and “a Poetic History” with train sounds (filmed from a Sony camera).
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of her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” performed in her 4/1/17 show.
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See YouTube (L) video of Janet Kuypers 9/9/17 reading her poems “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “Only Choice is to Build” and “erasure poem: A Declaration of Female Freedom” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ “Poetry Aloud”.
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See YouTube (S) video of Janet Kuypers 9/9/17 reading her poems “New Beginnings: getting married to my knight in shining armor”, “Only Choice is to Build” and “erasure poem: A Declaration of Female Freedom” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” @ “Poetry Aloud”.
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersOctober 2017 Book Release Readings 10/4/17 from the cc&d 10/17Forbidden”, with Erasure Poemsthe Meaning of Art”, “Corner Stone Against Slavery”, “a Declaration of Female Freedom”, “One of the Most Hated Women in America”, and “a Poetic History”, & her haiku “unbounded” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
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See YouTube video of Janet KuypersOctober 2017 Book Release Readings 10/4/17 from the cc&d 10/17Forbidden”, with Erasure Poemsthe Meaning of Art”, “Corner Stone Against Slavery”, “a Declaration of Female Freedom”, “One of the Most Hated Women in America”, and “a Poetic History”, & her haiku “unbounded” in Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

erasure poem:
a Declaration
of Female Freedom

Janet Kuypers
3/17/17
These are selected women’s rights words pulled
from the United States Declaration of Independence.

it becomes necessary
to dissolve this

to assume power

separate from man

i impel the separation

hold these truths
to be self-evident,
men create no rights
on life and happiness—
men derive power
from the weak

and i am not
more disposed to suffer

evils are themselves
a long train of abuses
and it is right for me
to provide new
future security

it is now necessity
to avoid injuries
and the absolute tyranny
over me

He has utterly neglected me,
refused me
thought I am only a body
for the sole purpose of
compliance with his measures

He has dissolved my rights

He has refused for a long time
any power I have

He has prevented
obstructed justice
on his Will alone,
to harrass
with Military power

his acts
on all parts
on us without our Consent
depriving us benefits

for offenses
on the free

Bound at once
an example
for introducing
the same absolute rule

For once

what is
Right
for us

and with this firm reliance,
we pledge
our Lives
and our sacred Honor.


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