poem “quote unquote love for your government”, a poem about a woman from North Korea wanting to defect to the United States after watching the movie “Titanic” because it showed her what the human emotion love meant, which she never learned in her country, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

[the Writing of Kuypers] [JanetKuypers.com] [Bio] [Poems] [Prose]

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Austin#8217;s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Austin#8217;s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Austin#8217;s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Knowing Kevorkian” and “We’re not Making any more Appointments” from her book “Chapter 48 (v1)”, plus her poem “Quote Unquote Love for your Government” live 6/23/18 at Austin#8217;s “Recycled Reads” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; Posterize).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “quote unquote love for your government” 9/25/18 during the Chicago open mic she guest hosted for Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “quote unquote love for your government” 9/25/18 during the Chicago open mic she guest hosted for Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v213 11/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Dist ances” poems “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta”, “quote unquote love for your government” (+ image), & “Meningitis, Six Feet Under” to close her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

quote unquote love
for your government
Janet Kuypers
(3 tweet poem, on twitter) 6/19/18
the one thing that made me want to escape to America
was watching the movie “Titanic”, because I couldn’t
understand why people in the movie would want to die for love.
Because love, for us, meant to love your leader, love your
government, because they saved you from the evil Americans.
This was the only love I knew. My mother never said
‘I love you’ to me. That was unheard of. There was only
the love for your leader. I went to school, I’d come home,
and I’d only hear of the love for our leader. Nothing else.
I want you to understand this: there was nothing else
than this quote unquote love for your government. No love
for your family. And that’s why I had to leave, to truly feel love.

Copyright © Janet Kuypers.

All rights reserved. No material
may be reprinted without express permission.

Like Janet Kuypers’ writing on any of these links below:

my hand to an anim of jkchair