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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 3/4/17 poetry show “Exploring Spring” at “Spring Awakenings” in Austin reading her poems “Spring”, “Entering the War Room”, “Job that Only Paid the Bills”, “Killing the Survivor Bug”, “Springtime”, and “Original Snowbirds” with video for the music, &s accompanying bird sounds (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

View or download the free PDF chapbook Exploring Spring 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 3/4/17 show.

See YouTube video from 3/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Canon psSX60).

See YouTube video from 3/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ultimate Connectivity: forgetting fear and feeling free” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (Canon psSX700).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 5/28/17 reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, “I Want” and “Killing the Survivor Bug<” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 5/28/17 reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck”, “I Want” and “Killing the Survivor Bug” with accompanying live music from Rich Xperience at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 12/10/17 reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then singing the WHAM! song “Last Christmas” with John on guitar, then reading her poem “Killing the Survivor Bug” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed with a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See Janet Kuypers’ YouTube video 12/10/17 reading her poem “Ocean’s Call to Dive”, then singing the WHAM! song “Last Christmas” with John on guitar, then reading her poem “Killing the Survivor Bug” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 show poems” at the “Kick Butt Poetry” open mic in Austin (this video was filmed with a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v212 10/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Beach at Night” poems “Killing the Survivor Bug” + image), “I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)” (+ show image 1, and show images 1, 2, & 3), and “Haiku (poet)” (+ 8/13/19 show images 1 & 2, + 8/15/19 show images 1 & 2, + poem image) during her “Poetic License 10/1/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Killing the Survivor Bug Janet Kuypers 2/12/17 Once springtime came we went to a bar, got a pitcher of a light fruity beer for the spring weather — but with spring came a whole new fleet of tiny little insects that swarmed the syrupy liquor bottles because they too were looking for something sweet. So at one point I had had a full pint from my pitcher of sweet fruity beer, the glass was just sitting there, and that’s when I noticed a bug at the top of my beer. Apparently he was thirsty too, but he just flew in there, and I thought just get him out, place him on the bar to see if he will live. and so he placed the bug on his finger, moved it to the bar, and let the bubble of beer on his finger glide the bug to the bar. And then we waited. And no more than ten seconds later, the bug moved our of the water, and I screamed “He’s the survivor bug!” before the bug got enough energy together to fly away. And this is such a frivolous thing, but, I mean, it was spring, it’s time to celebrate. Think of it as life anew, and we laughed and enjoyed our beer, because I’m sure the alcohol would kill any germs from little bug, and we went back to socializing. But at one point I look up, and see him swatting at a bug and killing it dead. I stared for a second. “Did you just kill the survivor bug?” I asked, and suddenly swatting one bug suddenly made him feel like he just used friendly fire to kill one of his brothers in arms. And after that, if we ever saw a bug in our beer we’d suddenly act like Mother Theresa — because after that spring day, we somehow understood how previous all life could be.

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