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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

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Listen to this track from the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD the DMJ Art Connection Disc One, which can also be ordered at any time online through iTunes.

Listen Live at the Cafe (as a bonus track from the 2004 Chicago Poetry Fest)... Or order any track off the CD Live at the Café through iTunes.

Watch this YouTube video of this poem read live in Chicago 09/12/03 at the “the Cycle of Life” DvA art gallery show

Or watch the FULL video from the Internet Archive of the whole live the Cycle of Life DvA art gallery 09/12/03 Chicago show

Listen to the live track (1:54, 09/12/03) from the DvA Art Gallery Chicago 09/12/03 performance The Cycle of Life.

This is on the collection CD The Final. Get a copy for only $6.22.

Watch this YouTube video (1:31) studio session “etc.” book reading for audio CD

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at a Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic It’s A Grind (at It’s A Grind Coffee House) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

Order this iTunes track from the collection poetry music CD the Final ...Or order the entire CD from iTunes:

See YouTube video from 3/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “I’m A Record Now” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 3/25/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Political Merry-Go-Round” and “I’m A Record Now” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

I’m a Record now I feel like I’m a record now you know how vinyl goes That there is a ridge, trailed in circles That groove that the needle can easily slip into Well, I feel like I am that record now And the needle of life is in me And it is playing my story And I am stuck on this record player At this certain speed And I can’t get the needle out of the groove And my life is being played out for me For everyone to hear And see And live        And they don’t feel a God-damned thing But they claim to know how I feel But that needle is stuck there And the R P M has been set on the player And now my life is an open book And now my life is a playing record And people can choose to read the book And people can choose to listen to the music And sometimes that excites me Sometimes that fascinates me And sometimes that scares me Because I wonder if people who listen know too little Or too much Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.