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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies” in honor of the April 12th date the U.S. Civil War begins, “Quarrel over the Constitution” on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday April 13th, “from Other Souls” for the April 14th date the Titanic hit an iceberg, 3 poems in honor of Arbor Day on April 24th: “nature I”, “Climbing Trees”, and “I’m Sure We Killed It”, the poem “Zouk or Xibelani” for the April 29th International Dance Day, and “People’s Lives Were at Stake” representing the April 29th Los Angeles riots, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v354 2/25 cc&d issue/book “The Moment” & the CyberWit Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics” (+ showing a poem reading image & a Hieroglyphics image), & “from Other Souls” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”), then 3 Twitter-length poems “Rhenium: the little element that could” (+ showing 11/2/22 reading images 1 & 2, + poem image), “Tantalum macroscopically entangles” (+ showing reading images 1 & 2, and the poem image), & “Tungsten out from under your thumb” (+ showing reading images 1 & 2, and poem image) which are all also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, to start her “Poetic License 2/2/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video video was filmed from a Samsung S24 camera first flipped and streamed and now cropped, and posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

from Other Souls

Janet Kuypers
Titanic references from her
2015 poem “Other Souls

Other souls
litter history books.

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I wish I was on the Titanic
(that sounds so like me —
I’d be the rich elite
on the first cruise
across the ocean)...
I wish I’d gone down,
gone down with them.**
I don’t care
what passenger I am,
the point is that
people will study the disaster
that I was in
for centuries.
Books will be written.
movies will be box office hits.
All from me being
in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

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Other souls
litter history books.
Some may have been great,
some, as I said,
may have been
at the wrong place
at the wrong time.
And after I’ve been attacked,
and after I’ve been almost killed,
what.
I’ve pieced myself back together,
I’ve screamed my stories from rooftops,
I’ve etched my words into stone.
And no one hears me.
And if they do,
no one will remember.

 

** Morrissey, “Munich Air Disaster 1958”


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