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Gonna Break Janet Kuypers (12/01/11) after almost losing my life and unable to hold a job i became a dependent on someone with better fortune who threw me a life preserver attached to a really rugged rope so i could stat afloat over these tumultuous waters and this life line’s been a godsend as i’m riding the waves from atop this buoyant ring it’s been a nice ride when my savior’s good fortune covered my nine hundred dollar a week medication, allowing me to survive and thrive and yeah, i hated becoming a dependent having to survive off someone else’s good fortune having no control over that life line, letting me live, but holding me in but at least i’m on this little donut my little life preserver being dragged behind my own cruise ship and it was all smooth sailing and the weather was perfect until the big storm came along and almost overturned my little life ring when i looked up the cruise ship was gone and all that was carrying me along was a little row boat that’s when i realized my salvation, my special someone, the one with the better fortune they lost their job too so now i float here leaning on my little life preserver and that rope to that little boat seems to be getting thinner and thinner i look at the shoreline knowing no one on land would want me for work so i look back at my life line wondering when that rope is gonna break

Watch this YouTube video read live 12/04/11, at the Café open mike she hosts in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 12/04/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading the poems Broke the Reflection, Gonna Break, and Mechanical Soldiers