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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” as the intro poem to “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”, followed by John reading Janet Kuypers’ poem “Each Trigger Pull” from the the Down in the Dirt 3/20 v169 issue/book “Going Off-Grid” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” as the intro poem to “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads”, followed by John reading Janet Kuypers’ poem “Each Trigger Pull” from the the Down in the Dirt 3/20 v169 issue/book “Going Off-Grid” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; also posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets (+ sharing its online image)”, and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the v319 3/22 cc&d book “Barn Cats” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/6/22 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). #janetkuypers janertkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “Niobium 92 & Solar System Secrets (+ sharing its online image)”, and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the v319 3/22 cc&d book “Barn Cats” to start the “Poetic License virtual open mic 3/6/22 she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems (including this one) in her “Taking off the Maskfeature and chapbook (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems (including this one) in her “Taking off the Maskfeature and chapbook (this video was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “found pandemic haiku”, “Everyone’s Afraid”, “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, “Because of Fire”, “Underground History”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, “No One Reports for Women”, “like nothing ever happened”, “United We Wonder”, “Knew the Word”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” in her poetry feature “Taking off the Mask” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera and zoomed; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video 3/30/22 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan”, “found pandemic haiku”, “Everyone’s Afraid”, “Out to the Horizon”, “jar for my beating heart”, “Because of Fire”, “Underground History”, “Quieting Anechoic Chamber”, “No One Reports for Women”, “like nothing ever happened”, “United We Wonder”, “Knew the Word”, and “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” in her poetry feature “Taking off the Mask” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S7 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading
video See this YouTube video (posted 8/17/22, a Wednesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Poetic License 3/6/22 open mic chapbook poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Banners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/24/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See this YouTube video (posted 8/16/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her Poetic License 3/6/22 open mic chapbook poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the v197 7/22 Down in the Dirt issue/book “History, Banners and Flags” when visiting Chicago 6/24/22 for The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Poetic License 3/6/22 open mic chapbook poems “Vaccinated from What Happens in Wuhan” and “from Looking for a Worthy Adversary” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic video Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
This Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera was also released with a Hue Cycling, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Vaccinated from What
   Happens in Wuhan

Janet Kuypers
2/22/20

how do you think
lethal infectious diseases
are spread anyway

seminal fluids,
blood transfusions, or... not
washing your hands

did you think
you were safe vacationing
on a cruise ship

silly you, for you
forgot that we’re now in that
global economy

and what happens
in Wuhan doesn’t necessarily
stay in Wuhan

after thousands
recently died from a recently
discovered virus

it’s discovered
this virus escaped from a bio
research lab

in China — not
Russia, not the middle East,
but a place where

they now say that
the Great Wall is only for show.
But is it really.

For the only
known bio lab in China, in Wuhan
recently re-issued

a statement on
cleanliness for the country,
to avoid disease —

released just after
this most-recent mass epidemic
was fully discovered

and you’d think a lab
would know how to be clean,
but that doesn’t mean

that their well-paid
researchers wouldn’t illegally
make an extra buck

(or would that be
making many, many extra yuan)
that doesn’t mean

these researchers
wouldn’t sell these laboratory
animals, still alive,

for extra cash
because one Beijing researcher
said they once sold

live monkeys and...
rats for the equivalent of over
a million U.S. dollars

and yes, those
precious disease-ridden animals
made their way into

people’s stomachs, and
maybe eventually to people working
on your cruise ships

and you thought
you were safe, silly you — you
should know better

you thought that
if you didn’t swallow three gallons
of someone’s saliva

you’d remain safe
from contracting those infectious
diseases, you’ve been

vaccinated, you even
go so far as to wash your hands
how noble of you

and you thought
that was enough — but as I said
this global economy

means it’s almost like
we’re all sharing one giant bed
together — we just

didn’t realize
how messy that bed could really be
how messy indeed


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