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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated” (written 12/14, on and for the anniversary of the 1542 death of King James V, which ascended Mary, Queen of Scots to the throne at 6 days old), “Uprising for Revolution” (written 12/16, on and for the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party), “Understand the Power” (written 12/17, on and for the anniversary of the Aztec Calendar/Sun Stone Discovery), “Twin” (for 12/18, National Twin Day), and “Explorers at Heart” (written 12/19, on and for the date of the departure of the Space Shuttle to repair the Hubble Telescope, 12/19/99) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/15/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading (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 “Queen, Decapitated”, “Uprising for Revolution”, “Understand the Power”, “Twin”, and “Explorers at Heart” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 12/15/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated”, “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky”, “Key to a Storyline”, and “Explorers at Heart” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Lifeboat” 12/1/21 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

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Queen, Decapitated”, “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky”, “Key to a Storyline”, and “Explorers at Heart” from the Down in the Dirt 12/21 v190 book “Lifeboat” 12/1/21 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 & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems poems “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, “Queen, Decapitated”, and “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 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 (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 “Emperor Assassinations and Partisan Politics”, “Queen, Decapitated”, and “Vaulted to Silhouette the Sky” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 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 Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Queen, Decapitated Janet Kuypers 12/14/19, the anniversary of the 1542 death of King James V, which ascended Mary, Queen of Scots to the throne at 6 days old Nepotism may be all well and good if you’re born into the right family — I mean, why does civilization still so love England’s inbred, I mean, Royal, family — but sometimes, nepotism or not, it might not work out to your advantage. Take, for instance, Plain Jane, I mean, Queen Jane, who took the throne not as a daughter but as a cousin — hey, that’s FAR too little inbreeding for THEIR tastes — so Lady Jane Gray, as Queen, was decapitated after only nine days, at age sixteen. But today I think of Mary, Queen of Scots, the only living child of King James V, who died when she was only six days old, making her Queen when she was less than a week old. You see, her two older brothers died a year before she was born — records don’t show why, it could have been that because diseases ran so rampant in the fifteen hundreds with no cures, they could have each suffered, say, a splinter, leading to infection and certain death. So she was the Queen of Scotland, eventually marrying her half cousin and having a child — it’s good to see that inbreeding is still a part of the family line — ruling (oh no, brace yourself for religious content) until the Protestant English wanted the Catholic Queen out of Scotland. When wankers were ruled by wankers, she ran to England, abdicating her throne to her infant son — not unlike how she originally gained power. Mary ran to Queen Elizabeth I, her cousin once removed, and the Queen of England willing complied — by keeping her imprisoned for nineteen years. While there, they found that Mary, Queen of Scots (by sending notes to contacts in the outside world) wanted to have her cousin slash captor killed, so Queen Elizabeth I of England had Mary, Queen of Scots beheaded... which is just another way to say decapitation, the seemingly preferred way to get bad blood out of an inbred family line. Wow, what a tangled web we weave — when we mix business with family, and then more family, and then try to call any of it royalty.

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