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See YouTube video of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life (this was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersmusic

See YouTube video from camera #2 of Kuypers’ feature Ten Minutes With Warren at the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, of her poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics song I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See YouTube video from the intro to the 06/14/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, & Kuypers’ poems The Things Warren Says, No One Will, Warren Stories, Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again, It’s Someone’s Job, and You Carried It, & her covering the Eurythmics’ I Need you, + her MFV song What We Need In Life

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eat me Alive”, “Escape My Brain Somehow”, “Broke the Reflection”, “My First Time”, “It’s Someone’s Job”, and “Before I Can Put a Smile on my Face Again” from her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” for the 2019 Poetry Bomb 4/29/19 at Circle Brewery (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

It’s Someone’s Job Janet Kuypers 06/10/11 it’s someone’s job to stitch the eyes and lips of a corpse up it’s someone’s job to take a generic beige powder and concealer to give my friend the color of life it’s someone’s job to trim the facial hair that extrudes after death it’s someone’s job to style a corpse’s hair so it still looks like the one you love it’s not my job to think of these things when you’re the one in the coffin it’s not fair that we see the powder along your face that we see the powder on your hands is also on your nails it’s not right to see you like this why must we make you up this way? it’s not the way you lived and this shouldn’t be you after you died it’s someone’s job to staple you shut, to make you look more alive it’s someone’s job to cosmetically placate our fears to make us not see what your body has become it’s someone’s job to keep out fantasy going because even though you’ve stopped living we can’t cope with your dying Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.