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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Over a Year Away”, then her poem “Waiting for a Sign (verses 1 and 3)” written and first performed in her “One Acts” show and read from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, then she sang, with John on guitar, the George Michael song “Waiting for That Day” live 1/24/17 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Over a Year Away”, then her poem “Waiting for a Sign (verses 1 and 3)” written and first performed in her “One Acts” show and read from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, then she sang, with John on guitar, the George Michael song “Waiting for That Day” live 1/24/17 at “Thirsty Thursday” in Dripping Springs (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video 8/24/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Over a Year Away”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 8/24/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Over a Year Away”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” open mic (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 1/22 v317 book “The Way She Was” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/2/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the Scars Publications cc&d magazine 1/22 v317 book “The Way She Was” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/2/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a color tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the 1-4/22 cc&d issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Check Your Clock”, “Over a Year Away”, and “Metamorphosis” from the 1-4/22 cc&d issue collection book “Unfinished Business” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Over a Year Away Janet Kuypers 1/14/19 People laugh at how tense I get, how I want everything done yesterday, how I’m such a type A person. And when it comes to romance... if you know it’s right, you know it’s right, so after dating for three months I got engaged. I know, I know, it seems rushed, but the wedding day we chose was over a year away. Seriously, without technically asking me, I wore his engagement ring — his great grandmother’s wedding ring, and we even reserved a hall thirteen months in advance (plenty of time to back out if I got cold feet). Just over a year before our wedding, May Seventh was approaching, and I said hey, our pre-anniversary is coming up Friday. Maybe we should go out. So living in Chicago, we found “Tommy Gun’s Garage”, which is a restaurant with a gangster & flapper show in a Prohibition-themed speakeasy setting. How perfect for Chicago, we thought, so he said he’ll reserve a table. And when that Friday came, as he was leaving for work, he asked if he could borrow the engagement ring. “Sure,” I said, and I handed it over, and I told him I’d see him tonight. And when he left, I think I did a dance, saying, “He’s gonna ask me to marry him! I mean, he’s gonna get down on one knee at a speakeasy and ask for my hand in marriage!” And so I looked at the clock, and our dinner was twelve hours away. Twelve hours. That’s a half a day, I thought, and I know I have to get ready, but... that’s a lot of waiting. Twelve hours suddenly seems like an eternity. Years away, Far too long to wait. Okay, it’s too early to get dressed. Find your dress, jewelry, purse, shoes and hose. Organize them so they’re ready. Go to the bathroom counter. After your shower, the blow dryer and curling iron are on the counter waiting to heat. Rearrange the piles of eye shadow, eye liner, mascara for the eye lashes, rouge, concealer stick, lip stick. I look at all this stuff I’m supposed to put on my face and I think, this is a ton, but I’m sure I’m forgetting something. Oh, wait, deodorant, perfume. I think I’m gonna be sick just trying to think of how I’m now scheduling what I’m supposed to do soon. Or, in a few hours. Not yet. So just try to be calm. Maybe listen to some calming music. Try to get you mind on something else... yeah, right, get my mind on something else. Like that’ll happen. Well, maybe I have some computer work I need to do that can get my mind off of things. Just don’t get tense. Don’t get nervous. You know the big moment’s coming... you know what your answer’s gonna be, so, I don’t know. Just wait. Just wait. — And sure, okay, I was ready, I was probably ready way early, but during the wait I didn’t have a nervous breakdown. Why would I have a nervous breakdown — He was getting down on one knee tonight and asking me to marry him. That’s the one thing I’ve been waiting for. — And no, he didn’t tell me that he told them he was asking me to marry him there. So they gave us a front and center table, they even announced us over the couple there for their twenty-five year wedding anniversary. Because, well, we were going to get married — that night we had the whole world in front of us. Trust me, we’ve waited long enough.

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