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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).

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).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling” (written on Sword Swallowing Day, 2/24), and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (for World Theater Day, 3/27), both from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling” (written on Sword Swallowing Day, 2/24), and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” (for World Theater Day, 3/27), both from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, 7/28/19 at Austin’s “Spoken and Heard” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Do the Dead Still Live",”, then her poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day” (for Valentine’s Day, 2/14) and “Queasy Feeling” (for World Sword Swallowing Day, 2/24), both read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 @ “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poem “Do the Dead Still Live",”, then her poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day” (for Valentine’s Day, 2/14) and “Queasy Feeling” (for World Sword Swallowing Day, 2/24), both read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 @ “Poetry Aloud” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Opposite”, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “(Less Than) Two Minutes With Ayn Rand”, and her prose “Valentine’s Day Over 25 Days Away” from the v294 “Mask” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queasy Feeling”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Opposite”, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “(Less Than) Two Minutes With Ayn Rand”, and her prose “Valentine’s Day Over 25 Days Away” from the v294 “Mask” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Queasy Feeling Janet Kuypers 2/24/19 poem on Instagram and twitter, written on World Sword Swallowers Day I wanted to swallow swords today, I wanted to feel the long blade sliding down my esophagus, wiggling past my diaphragm, and touching that sharpened blade tip to the opening of my stomach. Almost as if the sword is knocking, asking if it can come in. Please. I wanted to swallow those swords to mask the queasy feeling I have, like my insides have felt shredded since you left. My stomach’s been doing somersaults, turning without you, so maybe that sword would shock me into being calm again, would force me to control my breath and be at peace. Be at peace, isn’t that a lark, to think that I’ll slide swords down my throat to get my mind on anything other than you, gone. But you see, it’s meditation, choosing to swallow sword after sword, to force me to focus on nothing other than controlling everything about me, right down to my breath. I’ll focus on this one thing, the only thing I can control — until my mind can be free to clear the way for getting you back to me. It seems ludicrous, this sword swallowing, but it is nothing compared to the pain that has been deep within me since you have been gone. I’ll dissect me until I can see an us, as a forever we.

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