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Watch this YouTube video Live at Waiting4the Bus in Chicago 05/18/09

Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “That’s from the Barbed Wire” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eat Your Words” (written for Edible Book Day) and “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” (written on International Scribble day) at “Recycled Reads” 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “That’s from the Barbed Wire” from the v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her 2019 poems “Eat Your Words” (written for Edible Book Day) and “Etching, Scribbling, Drawing” (written on International Scribble day) at “Recycled Reads” 4/20/19 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter).

See this YouTube video (posted 6/7/22, a Tuesday like The Café open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““that’s from the barbed wire””, “the Cycle of Life”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 6/7/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See this YouTube video (posted 5/31/22, a Tuesday like The Café Gallery open mic dates) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems ““that’s from the barbed wire””, “the Cycle of Life”, “Finding Faith in a Grocery Store”, and “Painted Buddhas” from the Down in the Dirt v194 4/22 book “Seahorse” when visiting Chicago 3/29/22 for “The Café Gallery 5/31/22 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (video from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How People Interpret My Words”, “you’ve already paid for this”, “Chicago”, “that’s from the barbed wire”, and “the Cycle of Life” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “How People Interpret My Words”, “you’ve already paid for this”, “Chicago”, “that’s from the barbed wire”, and “the Cycle of Life” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

“that’s from the barbed wire”

Janet Kuypers, 05/18/09 she had skin of silk smooth and strong beautiful to touch             with silk around you             you always get warm                                feel warm             you can’t escape it I watched her skin her silken exterior and saw occasional rips             small spare tears with little dots of blood tracing the edges I had to ask and she told me “oh, that’s from the barbed wire” and I suddenly internally panicked what did they do to her how did they hurt her ...or was she trying to escape their potential torture how could they destroy this silken beauty how — then I wondered where the barbed wire was I wondered where the torture was and then I wondered if the barbed wire was inside her trying to tear her silk trying to break its way out Copyright © 2009 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.