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See YouTube video of the Cutting Room Floor at the Palos Park Public Library 10/07/09

or see the full 10/07/09 Video at the Palos Park Public Library of the Cutting Room Floor via the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry in a poetry reading, as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Let Me Be 09/01/09 there’s love at one side of the spectrum there’s hate at the other side and then in the middle there’s indifference indifference, apathy lack of anything that’s that in-between space after we broke up I drank too much at bars getting too angry getting too depressed and now I want to live my life and I swear, I want you to be no part of it and it’s not because if I see you I’ll lash out at you and it’s not because I inherently desperately want you back and it’s not because I’m busy comparing you to what I could have it’s because I have better things to do and you’re in the way because there is so much I could do I could jump out of an airplane I could write a novel I could make my first million in the Stock Market                 well, it could happen I could take the stage I could take a shower I could file my nails I could fall asleep I could do                 whatever I want and I want to make it clear I’m finally free from you and I mean that in the physical sense in the intellectual sense in the molecular sense I mean I’m free of you so please get me out of your head let me be Copyright © 2009 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.