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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v352 12/24 cc&d issue/book “In Love With Erosion” & the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “1864 Mentality in 2024” (+ showing 2024 Poetry Bomb images 1 & 2, + The Gallery Cabaret show image), “Understand the Power (The Universe is in Your Hands edit), & “Enough is Enough (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)” to start her “Poetic License 12/1/24 Global Open Mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed with a Samsung S24 camera and given a Toxic Glitch filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enough is Enough (The Universe is in your Hands edit) Janet Kuypers 2/13/24 Waited outside in Bad Gastein for a bus tour of a radon cave at a nearby mining mountain with many German-speaking Austrians. So out of my element, I ached for an American voice... Until then heard a boisterous baritone, so I made my way to the booming, distinctly American voice. I merely asked, “American?” Immediately the big man boomed, “Hi, I’m Frank, and the little missus here is Mildred. We’re from Detroit. I worked for GM for 35 years, and now that the kids are all grown up, with my pension I thought I’d take the little missus here to see the Alps...” And that’s when I realized that I could have stood at fifty paces and still heard Frank telling the entire neighborhood the epic of his life. That’s when it occurred to me, how loud us Americans could be. When first traveling through Europe after the “war on terror” began, the United States government and airlines wanted to inform Americans traveling abroad that if they were concerned about being a conspicuous target by looking too American, they offered these simple guidelines: Don’t wear a University sweatshirt. Don’t wear a sports team baseball cap. Don’t chew gum. Don’t yell.           And all I could hear in my mind now           was Frank, not yelling, but somehow yelling nonetheless... A part of me wanted to tell all English-speaking Austrians on that tour “Not all Americans are that loud,” because even if some Americans want to rest on their laurels, some of us know when enough is enough.

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