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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) & “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on and for Cinco de Mayo) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Missed the Clicks and Scratches” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “You are Born to Do” (written May 4th, for “May the Fourth be With You”, for Star Wars) & “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on and for Cinco de Mayo) 5/5/19 at “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as a bonus reading 5/5/20 the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week) from her perfect-bound ISBN# collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for the “Poetic License open mic 5/5/20 bonus reading” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Excuses for Celebrating” from the cc&d May 2021 v309 issue “Excavation” at Circle Brewing Company for “The Café Gallery 5/5/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery #janetkuypersinstagram

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Our Excuses for Celebrating” from the cc&d May 2021 v309 issue “Excavation” at Circle Brewing Company for “The Café Gallery 5/5/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating”, “Our Demons Can Mark Us”, “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With”, and “Exploring Evolution” (cut off) from the “Excavation” section of the cc&d May-August 2021 issue collection book “What If” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating”, “Our Demons Can Mark Us”, “Freedoms of Speech we can Agree With”, “Exploring Evolution”, and “Outsider” from the “Excavation” section of the cc&d May-August 2021 issue collection book “What If” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Our Excuses for         Celebrating Janet Kuypers 5/5/19, written on & for Cinco de Mayo I think us Americans look for any remote holiday to use as a reason to celebrate by drinking. Case in point, let’s talk about Cinco de Mayo. Technically it’s a celebration of Mexico winning the first battle of Puebla over the French Empire — and in Puebla, they have music, art festivals, parades, and even battle reenactments. But it’s not nationwide, because it would kind of be like us celebrating the Battle of New Orleans. What, you don’t know off the top of your head as an American (unless you’re a history buff) anything about this battle? Well, it was the first battle the U.S. won against Great Britain during the war of 1812. Yes, winning these battles gave us real credit as an actual country, but we don’t go around celebrating one date from one battle by drinking a lot and celebrating. The closest I’ve ever come to celebrating anything in Mexico was spending a few hours in Tijuana one balmy afternoon with new-found American drinking buddies — where, after photographing a small pony painted as a zebra, we went to a few bars during the day where waitstaff literally poured tequila down my throat and the other American girl there insisted I dance the Macarena with her. Now, I don’t do line dancing like that, but maybe it was the free watered down tequila the waitstaff poured down my throat, because that made it almost be reason enough to celebrate. And yeah, most Americans don’t know why Cinco de Mayo is even celebrated. So no, that won’t make any difference to the Americans who want a reason to celebrate something they choose to not understand. But if you do want to revel in this holiday just a little bit, then raise a glass for a country being able to fight for their independence, and win. Because that is something we can all understand.

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