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See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Posterize filter).
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See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Hue Cycling filter).
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See YouTube video 4/21/19 on Easter of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” on the last day the restaurant “Opal Divine’s Marina” was open in Austin (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and given a Threshold filter).
video See this YouTube video (posted 5/4/22, a Wednesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/4/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See this YouTube video (posted 5/3/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Genesis Forty-Five” from the v320 4/22 cc&d book “Seaweed Garden when visiting Chicago 3/28/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/3/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; on <Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Thirty-Seven”, “Genesis Forty and Forty-One”, “Genesis Forty-Two and Forty-Three”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Forty-Five”, and “Genesis Forty-Nine” from the video CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers 2023 poetry book “Testament” outside at the remains of the pool of the Branch Davidian compound near the 30-year anniversary of the Waco siege for the 2023 Poetry Bomb (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, Testament and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this Facebook video post filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Genesis Forty-Five

Janet Kuypers
4/20/19

After you men stripped me of my life,
I worked; I clawed my way to make it back
until I actually ruled new land.

So now you all came crawling back;
I saw your weakened and disheveled forms
and decided, that after all this time

I’ll reveal my true self to you again.
You hated me before, but now you need me.
After these years, all I’ve needed

was the one man who truly believed
in me, and you not only tore me away from him
but also led him to believe I was dead.

So, okay, I revealed myself to you.
I will give you what you need, if you bring
to me the one thing I have needed.

Do this for me. You denied me of
all that’s good before, so now we should both
give, and we will all feel truly free.


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