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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems &“Up for the Challenge”, “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” and “Only Certain People” from the cc&d 11/20 v303 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/1/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page in front of the New Orleans Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Up for the Challenge”, “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” and “Only Certain People” from the cc&d 11/20 v303 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/1/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page in front of the New Orleans Public Library (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Over Hazardous Land” (written 11/10, on and for the Marine Corps birthday), “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves” (for Veterans Day11/11), “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” (written 11/11, on and for the 1922 birthday of Kurt Vonnegut), and “Our Waste in Space” (written 11/12, the anniversary of the 1984 date of the first attempt to salvage errant satellites from space) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Over Hazardous Land”, “Keep Our Country and Save Ourselves”, “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR”, and “Our Waste in Space” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” and “Lost Cross” from the cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” 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). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” and “Lost Cross” from the cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Vanity Plates saying                   NO WAR Janet Kuypers 11/11/19, on the 1922 birthday of Kurt Vonnegut I served in the military in WWII... when the bombings came, my survival depended on my hiding in a meat locker with cadavers 3 stories underground      until we emerged to find the city of Dresden burned to the ground so yes, I may now be anti-war which may be as pointless as being against homes or schools because as terrible as wars are sometimes they are necessary with true evil in the world... so make sure you fight a just war once you see it from the inside does the dichotomy make sense, choosing to use nuclear bombs destroying cities of civilians? For it made sense when I saw a purple heart license plate, a vanity plate that said        NO WAR the humanist in me sees the choices we all make and don’t think about, so I satirize my way through — so people can start to see the dichotomy in their ways... for, honorary atheist or not, we live in a world of the survival of the fittest, in politics, in religion, and, of course, in war      the best way to handle it all is to keep a humorous outlook on it all, because that might be the only thing that gets you through

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