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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Keep flying into Death in the first round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Keep flying into Death in the first round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (filmed w/ a Sony camera).

See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Keep flying into Death, and Knew All Along (read with an altered voice) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 9/4/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Keep flying into Death, and Knew All Along (read with an altered voice) at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (S) reading her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Keep flying into Death” and “Excuses for Skipping Work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers (L) reading her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Keep flying into Death” and “Excuses for Skipping Work” from her book “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” 8/6/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic, at a book store affiliated with the Austin Public Library.

Keep flying into Death Janet Kuypers 20160708 editing and adaptation of “keep looking for death”, which was written 7/28/11 and 7/29/11 One of their windshields actually broke... You know, the glass breaks into such tine little pieces. The look like ice. After smashing into a couple of windshields, I was knocking on death’s door. I did everything I could to gain any of my freedoms back. I moved my appendages anywhere until I was able to fly again. And now that I’m here, I am waiting again — because now I know death is just around the corner waiting for me. So I keep looking for it. I fly along a sidewalk and imagine a car careening off the road behind me so I can’t escape my impending doom. I see the road in front of me, yeah, I see the crossing cars but I know the winds around here and I mean, we’ve all done this before, we know the risks, that’s a part of life. That’s a gamble we all take when we fly through our life, so we never think twice before the catastrophe strikes. I was at an intersection when two cars tossed me around like I was nothing and if the odds seem so slim that something like that could ever happen, I think of how I always seem to beat the odds and wonder how it may happen again. I keep looking for it. and I keep managing to just scrape by. But still, I keep looking.

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