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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (P L T56).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Hue C.).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Poster).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping the Atmosphere Any Way we Can” (written on Wernher von Braun’s birthday, 3/23), “Zeal was Unbridled” (written the calendar day, 3/19, Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree), and “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (written on the anniversary of the Reichstag fire, 2/27) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (T56; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Flooded War Memories” and “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land” (2nd poem written 3/17 for Saint Patrick’s Day), then “Zeal was Unbridled”(written 3/18, the day Hitler signed the Nero Decree), all read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, during the “Poetic License open mic 3/1/20”, while hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of Pi”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny”, read from the v169 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Going Off-Grid”, live 3/4/20 in her March 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 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of Pi”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny”, read from the v169 2/20 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Going Off-Grid”, live 3/4/20 in her March 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 from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” of the Down in the Dirt February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (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 “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” of the the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers

Zeal was Unbridled Janet Kuypers 3/19/19 (on Instagram and twitter written the calendar day Adolf Hitler signed the Nero Decree) Slaving, I risked my life — and in these struggles I had a vision the entire fatherland would ultimately embrace. This was your salvation, you begged for it, your zeal was unbridled. But as time wore on you and the masses were too blind to truly fulfill your destiny. You don’t understand, I earned the Iron Cross for my unbridled heroism. I fought in the streets for the right kind of government for my people — and I changed my life, so I could be your servant, and now, now you all betray me so. I have always fought, and that has been my decree since the beginning, to never surrender. And as I continue to fight, all I see around me now are cowards. You should want to die instead of turning your tail to run. Deserter. You deserted your destiny; not me. This is only proof to me that it was never your destiny after all, and each one of you should perish — and if enemies come to take over my land, we should leave them nothing, only a scorched earth, and since my people stopped fighting, let them die too. I want to make this clear: it was not my vision that was faulty; it was your inability to fulfill your goals and ultimately make this empire reign a thousand years. Your unbridled love for these ideals should have sustained you. So, you have no one to blame but yourself.

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