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See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ever since my childhood”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Down in the Dirt 11/20 v177 book “Pipe Dreams”; live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (video 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 “ever since my childhood”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Down in the Dirt 11/20 v177 book “Pipe Dreams” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unwind and Revere Yourself” (written on the 4th Saturday in November, on and for International Aura Day), “Evolving with Mutant Genes” (written 11/24, on and for the 1859 publication date of the Charles Darwin book “The Origin of Species”), “Yes, For Our Future Too” (written on and for Thanksgiving), and “Ethical Thing to Do”(written 11/28, on and for the day of the 1781 Zong massacre, where a British slave ship crew murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live during the 11/21/20 “Open Mic Showcase” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unwind and Revere Yourself”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/21/20 during the Open Mic Showcase Zoom meeting (Samsung S9 camera).

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ever since my childhood”, “Oh, the book is Better than the Movie”, “Vessel to Spread the Word”, “Otherwise Reigned Supreme”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the v177 book “Pipe Dreams” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/19/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and 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 “ever since my childhood”, “Oh, the book is Better than the Movie”, “Vessel to Spread the Word”, “Otherwise Reigned Supreme”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the v177 book “Pipe Dreams” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/19/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading   #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Yes, For Our Future Too Janet Kuypers 11/28/19 (Thanksgiving) During this Autumn, I have been following the news of the Voyager 2 satellite, once traveling to see the Solar System’s moons of the gas giants, but now that the deed was done, it is continuing its travel into interstellar space. A true Voyager indeed, this satellite has just now traveled through an 89,000°F wall of plasma that surrounds the edges of our Solar System — although this is a low-density “heliopause”, it’s still like a wall of fire, something we’re seeing for the first time in our history, where we wait for first reports back from our Voyager to tell us what we’re in for... which I suppose is not entirely unlike Christopher Columbus traveling for Spain, when discovering this “new world” to Europeans, so historically we look back fondly on a meeting of new peoples, to share with others and give thanks for our survival.                                 I’m sure that’s probably not even close to how it went back then, but we stupid American have convoluted this gathering as a chance to get together and be thankful for everything we have after “harvest” is complete. And in our monetary world, we then make it a gluttonous festival before the gluttonous season preceding a day some historians chose to be the day of the birth of their savior.                                   As a rule, I shy away from this holiday, I don’t know why — I think it’s just another reason to relish in eating a burnt dead bird and wallow in one of the seven deadly sins, but hey, isn’t that what we Americans do.                                    Forced to live through this day, I remember our pioneering spirit that brought us here, but I am also forced to remember some of my own Hellish past that has brought me to my one true love, which forces me to be thankful, for what brought me this love, for what we have, and yes, for our future too. I believe there’s so much more that I’ve got to do, and for this, I thank you.

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