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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (P L T56).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Hue C.).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Poster).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Sepia).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of Pi”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny”, read from the v169 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Going Off-Grid”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of Pi”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny”, read from the v169 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Going Off-Grid”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169Going Off-Grid” of the Down in the Dirt February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169Going Off-Grid” of the the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

Zeal was Unbridled

Janet Kuypers
3/19/19 (on Instagram and twitter
written the calendar day Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree)

Slaving, I risked my life —
and in these struggles
I had a vision the entire
fatherland would ultimately
embrace. This was your
salvation, you begged for it,
your zeal was unbridled.
But as time wore on you and
the masses were too blind
to truly fulfill your destiny.

You don’t understand,
I earned the Iron Cross
for my unbridled heroism.
I fought in the streets
for the right kind of
government for my
people — and I changed
my life, so I could be
your servant, and now,
now you all betray me so.

I have always fought, and
that has been my decree
since the beginning, to
never surrender. And as
I continue to fight, all I
see around me now are
cowards. You should want
to die instead of turning
your tail to run. Deserter.
You deserted your destiny;

not me. This is only proof
to me that it was never your
destiny after all, and each
one of you should perish —
and if enemies come to
take over my land, we
should leave them nothing,
only a scorched earth, and
since my people stopped
fighting, let them die too.

I want to make this clear:
it was not my vision that
was faulty; it was your
inability to fulfill your goals
and ultimately make this
empire reign a thousand
years. Your unbridled love
for these ideals should have
sustained you. So, you have
no one to blame but yourself.




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