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See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ever since my childhood”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Down in the Dirt 11/20 v177 book “Pipe Dreams”; live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ever since my childhood”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Down in the Dirt 11/20 v177 book “Pipe Dreams” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unwind and Revere Yourself” (written on the 4th Saturday in November, on and for International Aura Day), “Evolving with Mutant Genes” (written 11/24, on and for the 1859 publication date of the Charles Darwin book “The Origin of Species”), “Yes, For Our Future Too” (written on and for Thanksgiving), and “Ethical Thing to Do”(written 11/28, on and for the day of the 1781 Zong massacre, where a British slave ship crew murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live during the 11/21/20 “Open Mic Showcase” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Unwind and Revere Yourself”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 11/21/20 during the Open Mic Showcase Zoom meeting (from a Samsung S9 camera).

See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ever since my childhood”, “Oh, the book is Better than the Movie”, “Vessel to Spread the Word”, “Otherwise Reigned Supreme”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the v177 book “Pipe Dreams” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/19/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “ever since my childhood”, “Oh, the book is Better than the Movie”, “Vessel to Spread the Word”, “Otherwise Reigned Supreme”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Just too High for Just one Man”, “Evolving with Mutant Genes”, and “Yes, For Our Future Too” from the v177 book “Pipe Dreams” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/19/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading   #janetkuypersthecafegallery

Evolving with Mutant                            Genes Janet Kuypers 11/24/19 (the 1859 Charles Darwin publish date of The Origin of Species) When with a bunch of men riding their motorcycles north of Chicago, I asked one man if I could ride in the back of his Honda Gold Wing. The Dutch man, Van, said, “okay, but I usually don’t let Dutch women ride along if they’re not blondes with blue eyes...” And I got so angry, nearly yelling, “look, my Dutch roots go back to my great great-great-great-great grandfather born in 1767, and all my Dutch family I’ve ever known, have all had brown hair and brown eyes, so don’t you dare tell me us Dutch people have that recessive trait...” and, of course, I rode along on the back of that bike, but it made me think about what traits we genetically carry from one generation to the next, and how it defines how we live, who we like and how we carry our genetic genes from one generation to the next. Because, as far as I know genetically we humans all started with brown hair and brown eyes, and I wonder if this is why I fall for blue eyes so much. Because, as I said, genetically, we all started with brown hair and brown eyes, so why did it all get so messed up with this blue-eyed thing in the first place anyway? Well, scientists just recently discovered that the melanin in our brown eyes may have varied over the years, but only about six to ten thousand years ago was there a mutated gene, a mutant, that was responsible for producing melanin in the human eye. Yes, only a few thousand years ago did some mutant gene come along to see if this was something that would work better in the human race. Because sometimes that’s the way genetics works, some weird mutant gene happens once to see if it works well for the species. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t, which may account for why not all humans are now blue eyed. It may work for some areas in the world, but not for all, so this mutant blue-eyed gene didn’t catch on world-wide. Which may be why I’m so attracted to that mutant gene, something not so common. But don’t worry, the strongest genes will survive over generations, I’ve learned that too, as we all have, and become stronger, and better, than we were before. That’s how this whole species works, forever changing, forever evolving. That’s what we do.

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