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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Have You Ever Had” originally performed in her “new year’s unplugged” show and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “Queasy Feeling” (written on National Sword Swallowing Day), live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Have You Ever Had” originally performed in her “new year’s unplugged” show and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter48 (v1)”, then her 2019 poems “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “Queasy Feeling” (written on National Sword Swallowing Day), live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”,including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/4/19 reading her poetry from the Down in the Dirt v167 Nov./Dec. 2019 issue/book “Why Peace Will Forever Elude Us”,including her poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis Twenty-Eight”, “You Do What You’re Told”, and “Imagination”, then her “Death Comes in Threes” poems “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “As I Recovered”, “Will Be Just Fine”, and “Get It Over With”, all read live (with Thom poetry) during her December 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Legacy” book (set 3) poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis 28”, “Imagination”, “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “Hallucinations”, “Imagining Friends and Loved Ones”, “Imagining Dave”, “No One Gave Me Flowers”, “As I Recovered”, “(from) Any Help At All”, “Will Be Just Fine”, “They Wouldn’t Trust Me with a Razor”, “(from) Get It Over With”, “Like My Motto”, and “Being God” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Legacy” book (set 3) poems “Prescribe them Something, Anything”, “Genesis 28”, “Imagination”, “(from) Sometimes It’s Not”, “Hallucinations”, “Imagining Friends and Loved Ones”, “Imagining Dave”, “No One Gave Me Flowers”, “As I Recovered”, “(from) Any Help At All”, “Will Be Just Fine”, “They Wouldn’t Trust Me with a Razor”, “(from) Get It Over With”, “Like My Motto”, and “Being God” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Prescribe them Something,
                             Anything

Janet Kuypers
on Instagram and twitter, 2/22/19

I’ve played this game with all you doctors
I live on whatever prescription drugs you can hand me
and I try to make myself chemically better

So when I’ve decided I can’t take it anymore
I go to the doctor, start to cry to them, try to ask for relief
and they give me blank stares, afraid of emotion

They’re afraid of taking a patient’s hand —
they’d rather prescribe them something, anything, and say
their work is done and they’ve succeeded

But I think the average American
is sick and tired of your cookie-cutter answers, which are
sharper than a scalpel, and we’re bleeding


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