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Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03 |
Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34) |
Watch part of the poem video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (1:59) |
Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show) |
Watch this YouTube video (1:59) performed live of the beginning of the 03/18/03 live performance art show Death Comes In Threes.< |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (4:42) live 03/08/11 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 03/08/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago, plus the poems The One at Mardi Gras and Coslow’s, plus the Morrissey song Place in Hell covered |
Watch this YouTube video listen: (4:54) live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video (4:54) live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Blue Screen Key Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Green Screen Key Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Pastel Sketch Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with an Old Film Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live with a Metallic Filter 02/16/10 at the Café in Chicago |
Watch this YouTube video live in Chicago 02/20/12 at Café Ballou (the day before Fat Tuesday, via Waiting 4 the Bus) |
See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Canon P.S.). |
See YouTube video 6/24/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems The One At Mardi Gras & kids wielding freedom and sin; then her flash fiction A Dream About Murder at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (Sony). |
the one at mardi grasi was at mardi gras last weekendand i got a bunch of beads from parades (no, i didn’t lift my shirt for them) -
and a friend of mine had a balcony
of people stretched for over a mile. it was
the men expected women to get naked
flash pops, coupled with a roar from the
to strip for drunk strangers, when i knew
out their arms, looking up inquisitively, as
and had plenty of my own beads, i decided
when they looked up at me for something,
ones that are supposed to be stripping, but
crazy and walk away, or they would shrug,
make a gesture to turn around, as if to ask,
around, with their pants and their underwear
so over the course of the evening i
that there was this society, this micro-
prostitution-for-plastic-beads form of
everyone else, wearing grey and minding
disgustedly leaving or willingly obliging
what? you naughty, naughty girl.” and he
massive crowd that thinks they way i do.
there are about nine or ten million people, and
blindly do what i asked, but at the same time
to think that he was stunning, by far the best-
confident, but then again, i’m near-sighted
and neither would i, so his attention was
from under my balcony, and every once in a while
this is no way to start a relationship, hell,
but he’s damn near perfect. and all that time we
make sure i was still there. and finally he
finger to make him wait and then i threw
up with my taunting and still not giving in,
of self-worth, the sheer love of life, the
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