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Listen live from the 3/3/02 CD & the Chicago 9/10/02 show Stop. Look. Listen. — or order ANY track from this CD through Apple Music!

Watch the YouTube video from the show Stop. live 9/10/02 in Chicago

Or see the full “Stop” show including the performance of this piece, as a .mov file, an .mp4 file, or as a raw .ogv file, from the Internet Archive

Watch the YouTube video of a 10 minute portion of the 9/10/02 poetry show Stop, includeing this piece

Watch this YouTube video live 11/05/08, finale feature in Chicago at St. Paul’s, a desanctified church

Watch the complete St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago, with 11 poems live, filmed from above in the choir seating of this desanctified church (23:58, from the Internet Archive)

Watch the complete feature video from the St. Paul’s 11/05/08 show in Chicago (23:58) from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video read live10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers reading poems (including this poem) live 10/03/11 in the Waiting 4 the Bus show at Café Ballou for Chicago Calling, performing poetry with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Love Poem” and “Loved You the Most”, then sing her song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1”, then John reading his poem at “Poetry Aloud” 5/12/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Love Poem” and “Loved You the Most”, then sing her song “Tight Rope Affair” with John on acoustic guitar, all from her book “Chapter 38 v1” then John reading his poem at “Poetry Aloud” 5/12/18 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuyperssinging

Listen: (2:05) to this recording from Fusion — or download ANY track form this CD anytime from iTunes...

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v217 3/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “The Darkness Within” poems “Decorating the Lockers” (+ 11/5/08 show image), “Wedding Lost” (+ 11/5/08 show image), & “Loved You the Most” (+ 5/3/02 show image) during her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (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 THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

loved you the most I heard last week that you died. I called your office to ask you a question and the receptionist had to tell me. Of course I didn’t hear it from your family. How would they know to call me? They, who don’t even know my last name and think I was a heathen and no good for you. They, tied to you by blood, never knew I wished for that tie to you too. They never knew I put you on a pedastal. They never knew I made you my god. I went to your funeral today. I wore a veil over the brim of my hat and stayed in the back while they lowered your casket into the ground. When everyone was at your gravesite the minister talked about the ones you left behind: your parents, your brother, your sister. What he didn’t know was that you left me behind too. The one that loved you the most. I knew I could never have you in my life. But I needed to know you were alive, so I could go on living. And the minister spoke of how your family would miss you. And I thought, what about me. What do I do with nothing to love. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.