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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, then her 2019 poems “Easier and Easier” and “Plot and Wait”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “I’m Thinking About Myself Too Much”, originally performed in her “Lake County Poetry Bomb” and read from her poetry collection book “Chapter 48 (v 1)”, then her 2019 poems “Easier and Easier” and “Plot and Wait”, live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Plot and Wait”, “Ends of the Earth”, and “Keeps Repeating”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 9/2/19 at the 7' tall Mike Ditka bobblehead statue on display in Millennium Park in Chicago (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Plot and Wait”, “Ends of the Earth”, and “Keeps Repeating”, all read from her poetry collection book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” 9/2/19 at the 7' tall Mike Ditka bobblehead statue on display in Millennium Park in Chicago (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone filter).
video See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “nonetheless”, “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Plot and Wait”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the “a Stretch of Highway” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “nonetheless”, “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen”, “Plot and Wait”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the “a Stretch of Highway” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Plot and Wait

Janet Kuypers
Instagram and twitter poem, 1/13/19

They enlisted me as a sniper for years.
On all firing tests, I would score perfect —
or near perfect — every single time.

I worked as a sniper for years. And in
all that time, they never asked me to
shoot anyone. All I did was plot, and wait.



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