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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vastness of Just the Right Moon” (written 7/9/19, the day Saturn is closest and brightest to Earth because Saturn was opposite the Sun as seen from the Earth), “Vexing” (written on the anniversary of the day in 1878 the last witchcraft trial held in the United States), and “Voice and Word” (written on the calendar day George Michael was born, and the later calendar day Michael Jackson passed away) 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vastness of Just the Right Moon” (written 7/9/19, the day Saturn is closest and brightest to Earth because Saturn was opposite the Sun as seen from the Earth), “Vexing” (written on the anniversary of the day in 1878 the last witchcraft trial held in the United States), and “Voice and Word” (written on the calendar day George Michael was born, and the later calendar day Michael Jackson passed away) 7/20/19 at “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 5/20 “Imagination” book poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” 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 Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her cc&d 5/20 “Imagination” book poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vexing” (written on 5/14, the day in 1878 of the start of the last Salem, MA witch trial) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/14/20 as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vexing” (written on 5/14, the day in 1878 of the start of the last Salem, MA witch trial) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/14/20 as a bonus May reading for the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” (filmed w/ a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” from the v297 “Imagination” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (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 “Vexing”, “Just Names”, “Vatican Turned into a Whorehouse”, and “Journals Extinguished” from the v297 “Imagination” section of the cc&d 5-8 2020 collection book “One with the Mountain” live 8/5/20 (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Vexing Janet Kuypers 5/17/19, written on the day in 1878 the last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts Right about now, so many years ago, a righteous Christian woman accused a man of vexing her because he was putting a spell on her, harming her through his mental powers — which started a trial marking the beginning of the last trial in Salem about witchcraft. She was a Christian Science woman, no less where women thought that if men stared at them for too long, get them back by saying they were practicing witchcraft. Because — it couldn’t be anything else. I suppose it’s fun, looking back on U.S. history and seeing such a clash of ignorant beliefs... I know the Salem witch trials went on before the U.S. became the U.S., but this last witch trial was in Salem, and it just makes me think that history repeats itself if people don’t care to learn and people don’t care to listen. Because — if men are staring at me I’m not backward enough to call their acts an act of witchcraft. I just chalk their ignorance to cultural differences when in a foreign land, or else I chalk it up to the ever-prevalent sexism rampant in the world, and, then, I rise above, learn, and move on.

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