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the martyr and the saint

they gave their daughter the name
of the Patron Saint of television

and the television’s always been
one thing she hated about him

or was it the drinking that he needed
more than her

the business has gone bad
I’m a failure I’m not a man

he said he respected her
then he’d call her

a twenty dollar whore from Vegas

and the mother would hold
the child, the saint, the pure angel

hold her ears and hope she
couldn’t hear


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the CD set Live at the Cafe (3 CD set) the book Moving Performances the book the Window the book Oeuvre the book S&M by Janet Kuypers in 2007 We The Poets, 2007 poetry collection book, front cover Life on the Edge, 2007 ccd collection book, front cover It All Comes Down, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover Rising to the Surface, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover the CD Moving Performances