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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v221 7/74 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Mind Pebbles” book poems “Oeuf: The Perfect Wrap”, “Outstretched Hands, Off to the Races”, & “Quito, and our Fleeting Farewell” (which also appear in the CyberWit.net Summer 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) during her “Poetic License 7/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Film filter (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Quito, and our Fleeting                          Farewell Janet Kuypers 2/13/24 In what little time we had left in this town just south of the Equator, you still nursed your seasickness after drinking too much Pacific Ocean water after journeying on a far-too-rocky boat for far too long to get here. Though I have a bad track record with trying to climb mountains, we didn’t even have the time to hike the Pichincha Volcano that almost glared at us defiantly from outside our hotel window. Well, maybe we could try some local food. It’s always a struggle when you’re a vegetarian to find food you can eat, but nothing was open and our only choice on our last night in town was literally a Pizza Hut. I searched the menu toppings for something more exotic: corn kernels was all we could come up with for a more unique pizza topping... Which actually tasted really good. So, looking at the city lights on our last night, I knew I wouldn’t even be able to see Phoenix — or any other Southern Hemisphere constellation — in the hazy night sky, the way we did on that far-too-rocky boat. Thankfully, your seasickness eventually subsided. So, if nothing else, we should remember to add kernels of corn on top of our next homemade pizza.

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