poem “Ask Me if I’m a Truck (2019 April Fool’s Day edit)”, the poem “Ask Me if I’m a Truck” originally written in 1995 about Plush Horse ice Cream Parlor / Parlour stories of working with a bunch of guts who would goof off and write signs and tape them to each other’ls backs, that was in 1997 converted into prose for a GAD Publishing chapbook, that was then edited on April Fool’s Day in 2019 to incorporate those goofy tactics into things you do on April Fool’s Day, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck (2019 April Fool’s Edit)” for April Fool’s Day on April 1^st, “Zynski’s Manifesto” for the day the Unabomber was arrested on April 3^rd, and “Journalists Revealing the World” for Hug a Newsperson day on April 4^th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ask Me if I’m a Truck (2019 April Fool’s Edit)” for April Fool’s Day on April 1^st, “Zynski’s Manifesto” for the day the Unabomber was arrested on April 3^rd, and “Journalists Revealing the World” for Hug a Newsperson day on April 4^th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Ask Me if I’m a Truck
(2019 April Fool’s Day edit)
Janet Kuypers
“the plush horse stories”, written 1995
and adapted for April Fool’s Day 2019,
on twitter and Instagram and Tumblr
    So I worked for years part-time with about ten guys at an ice cream parlour (since the owner assumed guys were stronger, guys could scoop ice cream better, that was his idea). But they all screwed off when they were at work, and we’d write messages and tape them to each other’s backs...
    One April Fool’s Day, I wrote on the back of candy box paper, “I’m a boy with raging hormones” and for about an hour every customer had a good laugh at Matt’s expense.
    But my favorite was what I put on John’s back one April Fool’s Day... you see, John used to tell everyone the same joke; he’d say to you, “ask me if i’m a truck,” and when you’d ask him if he was a truck, he’d look real perplexed and say, “no...” like, why did you ask him that? So anyway, I got a sign on his back that day that said “ask me if i’m a truck”, and when all the customers did he got real confused, because he didn’t tell anyone to ask him that. It was hysterical.

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