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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Emphatic One” and “Khrushchev” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Emphatic One” and “Khrushchev” from the cc&d 9/20 v301 book “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” 9/8/20 during the Spoken Word Paris/Spoken Word Online open mic (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Emphatic One” (written 9/23 on and for Equal Pay Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”, then her poem “You Have No Idea” live 9/22/20 during the Spoken Word Paris / Spoken Word Online open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Emphatic One” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)”, then her poem “You Have No Idea” live 9/22/20 during Spoken Word Paris / Spoken Word Online (filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Khrushchev” and “Emphatic One” as her closing poems from the “The Zero Sum of Talking Heads” section of the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book anthology “Roll the Bones” for The Café Gallery 2/23/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “A Woman Talking About Her Rapist Friend”, “Emphatic One”, and “Quenching Anybody’s Thirst” from the book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” to close her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a 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. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Emphatic One Janet Kuypers 9/23/19, Equal Pay Day After working so hard and doing so well at work I couldn’t take my low pay anymore I knew it was wrong I knew it wasn’t fair and I had to do something about it I took a deep breath, set up a meeting with my boss — the owner of the company I don’t think he knew what this meeting was really about, so I started my speech no, wait, it wasn’t a speech it was more like a conversation, an emphatic one at that and when I explained that at this company I do the work of two people I think he thought I was going to ask for double pay (and really, I didn’t make much, but I didn’t want to lose my job over asking for a raise) but after I talked, after I reasoned, and after he may have realized that he had nobody else that could do all this work by the deadlines, and do it well, that knew, suddenly, paying me reasonably, seemed... reasonable. But uphill battles for us woman are the norm... You may want to think that if women work hard, women would earn the pay they deserve, but here’s the newsflash, we women work harder than men for less than equal pay, and shouldn’t we be happy we’ve even got jobs? I mean, what are these women complaining about when they’re supposed to take care of the house and raise babies for men anyway (and don’t forget, that’s after taking the man’s name too, because women can claim nothing for themselves anymore). Because the one thing I learned is to take the reigns and win every battle, only so women can be treated as equals. It’s just a shame that each woman has to take this fight on, because just because one woman does well, that doesn’t mean all of mankind (yes, you heard me, “man”kind) will make the connection that rights for one woman might actually mean rights for all women. So... I know it’s an uphill battle, but I just want you to remember that I’m always in your corner.

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