[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Quantum of Evidence”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, and “Ending it with Alexa” live 1/19/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Quantum of Evidence”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, and “Ending it with Alexa” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Quantum of Evidence”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, and “Ending it with Alexa” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her new poems “Quantum of Evidence”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, and “Ending it with Alexa” live 2/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Threshold filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (less than) “Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” (for Ayn Rand’s birthday, 2/2), “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country” and “Underscore for the Battles” (for Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, 2/12), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (less than) “Two Minutes with Ayn Rand” (for Ayn Rand’s birthday, 2/2), “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country” and “Underscore for the Battles” (for Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, 2/12), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/8/20 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew”, read from the v168 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Aurora” that also all appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/5/20 in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew”, read from the v168 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Aurora” that also all appear in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, live 2/5/20 in her February 2020 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books in Austin (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew” from the v168 “Aurora” section of the Down in the Dirt February-April 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Genesis Forty-Four”, “Genesis Twenty-Three”, “Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country”, “Underscore for the Battles”, and “Joining the Grave-Robbing Crew” from the v168 “Aurora” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Lawyering can Lead to Leading the Country Janet Kuypers 2/9/19 Let’s link U.S. agriculture, to lawyers, to the U.S. Presidency... Now, back in the early 1800s all farming was done by hand — but Cyrus McCormick saw his father work on a horse-drawn reaper, that could speed crop collection eventually 100-fold. When his father died, he moved to Chicago in 1847, where he and his brother through companies were able to quote-unquote mass- produce reapers for farmers. Now, although others claimed patents at the same time, that was when Cyrus McCormick saw John Henry Manny of Rockford, Illinois was also making a reaper. The Manny Reaper even beat Cyrus McCormick’s version during the Paris Exposition of 1855, forcing McCormick to file a lawsuit against Manny for patent infringement. The trial was first in Chicago and had prominent lawyers on both sides. But Manny’s lawyer team needed a local, so they hired the Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln for their group. They were sure he didn’t have the right kind of experience. Manny’s lawyer Edwin M. Stanton even said Lincoln was a “damned log-armed ape,” so although Lincoln was there, he didn’t contribute much of anything at all. And when the trial was moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, the lawyers just went there and didn’t even tell Lincoln. So when Lincoln heard of the move, he thought, ‘wait a minute, I should be there,’ so off he went, and found the trial, but all of the lawyers just ignored him. So all this time, Lincoln watched the trial that he didn’t contribute to, the trial that Manny actually won, and Lincoln thought, ‘hey, I I should really surge with this lawyer thing,’ and after a few years, he... well, you know... became the President of the United States. # That lawyer Stanton ripped on Lincoln back in the day, but after Lincoln became President, he actually chose Stanton as his Secretary of War. Because back in the day, people didn’t automatically choose cronies just like them to serve their own selfish interest to join them, but they often chose people different front them, so they could have a well-rounded view on how to serve this country. Novel idea, isn’t it, to make the effort to work with the opposition so the government actually works.

Copyright © Janet Kuypers.

All rights reserved. No material
may be reprinted without express permission.

Like Janet Kuypers’ writing on any of these links below: