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read live 12/11/11, at the Café weekly poetry open mike she hosts in Chicago (with music and video shown from the HA!man of South Africa)
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of the intro to the 12/11/11 weekly poetry open mike at the Café in Chicago, & her reading her new poem & poems from her book Contents Under Pressure (music from the HA!man of South Africa)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Conflicting Convictions”, “Ogilvie”, and singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from the cc&d v5 poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Conflicting Convictions”, “Ogilvie”, and singing her poem/song “Made Any Difference” from the cc&d v5 poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Ogilvie

Janet Kuypers
(12/06/11)

they gotta keep
the homeless people
outta here
I heard one
fast food junkie
say to another
at the Ogilvie
train station

you see,
that homeless person
just left me
after I sat here
to write

she asked for money
so she could take
the train

so I told her
that
I don’t have
a job
and my husband
just lost his
so I’ve got
nothing

and it’s strange
when I’ve been asked
for money before
I would lie
and say
I’ve got nothing

and it feels strange
that this time
I say those words
and they’re true


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