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Listen to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something

Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #1 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

Watch this YouTube video Live at Getting Wired (camera #2 at Starbucks, Chicago, 08/08/09)

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this poem (camera #1) This film is from the Internet Archive

See the full Getting Wired show video w/ this writing (camera #2) This film is from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Listening to the Cancer Ads (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Listening to the Cancer Ads (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download these poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

Listening to the Cancer Ads every time I listen to the radio and hear an ad for cancer research (granted, it’s usually for tumors) well, now I listen actively now, I know she had cancer before breast cancer, cervical cancer and after the surgery and after the chemo she got a clean bill of health and now she’s got leukemia cancer in the blood, not in a tumor so there’s no one spot to attack but every time I hear a cancer ad my ears perk up, like a Pavlovian dog it’s like someone’s just rang a bell and it makes me listen attentively I know it doesn’t make a difference I think she was at one of the best hospitals but I hear about these research places and wonder if there are slivers of hope but as I said, I know it’s irrelevant she’s already gone through two types of chemo and I know she’s decided to stop the treatment so I know there’s no point in new therapy but I still can’t help it I still am forced to respond to these ads like some sort of stupid Pavlovian dog I hear these ads that are supposed to mean nothing to me still, I listen Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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