poem “Kiribati”, a poem about how one chain of islands was caught over 24 hours with the division of the International Date Lines, so to correct this for the islands they moved the Date Line all to one side, but in doing so parts of the chain lost the last day of the year in 1994, so there is a place in the world that did not have a New Year’s Eve one year, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism” (written 12/30, on and for the 1816 day the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley marries his 2nd wife Mary Godwin, the later author of “Frankenstein”), “Helping Men in Public Places” (written in honor of New Year’s Eve), and “Kiribati” (written 12/31, on and for the time when part of the world lost the day of New Year’s Eve) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/30/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Until They Talked of Galvanism”, “Helping Men in Public Places”, and “Kiribati” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/30/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” from Scars Publi cations for “The Café Gallery 2/17/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 “Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” from Scars Publi cations for “The Café Gallery 2/17/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series. (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Beginning of the Universe”, “Out Toward the Horizon”, “Neodymium magnets up your nose”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, & “Kiribati” from her manuscript of the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” in front of the grain tower for Circle Brewing Company on 4/28/24 for “the 2024 Poetry Bomb” (this video was filmed from a 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 and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

Kiribati
Janet Kuypers
12/31/19
The beginning of a History
web page article reads, in effect:
‘If you tell me you were born
in Kiribati on December 31st in 1994,
then you are firstly a liar,
and secondly, you do not exist.’
Because of the change in time zones,
the previously called Gilbert Islands —
these Kiribati Islands — were divided
up by the International Date Line —
and the western portion was 24 hours
ahead of its eastern side. So in effect,
there were only 4 days in the week
where business could even be conducted.
The article explains that to correct this,
the Date Line was “shunted” to the east
so all of the islands were on the same day.
But to do this, the islands had to skip the
entire last day in December to pull this off.
I’m always wondering what I should be doing
on New Year’s Eve. But what if, on one year,
there was no New Year’s Eve. What then.

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