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Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD Torture & Triumph ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Listen or live tracks from the CD & performance art show How Do I Get There?

Watch this YouTube video live at the show How Do I Get There 02/15/05, Chicago

see the entire performance of How Do I Get There? 02/15/05 in Chicago live, via the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube video (1:27) read from the ISBN# book Living in Chaos, live 03/29/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 3/29/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago (where she is the host), with this poem reading

Watch the YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 3/14/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the Kodak

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Lambs To Heaven’s Gate, Why I Didn’t See God and thank you, women who work one, plus her bonus reading of the Ai poem The Good Shepherd at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems Lambs To Heaven’s Gate, Why I Didn’t See God and thank you, women who work one, plus her bonus reading of the Ai poem The Good Shepherd at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s in Texas (from a Sony camera).

Lambs to Heaven’s Gate They tell you the meek shall inherit the earth. Then they lead their lambs to the slaughter as I do, to the ones who will follow. You see, the meek wouldn’t know what to do with their inheritance. They know nothing of property, ownership, power. I teach them not to understand these values but to fear them. To sacrifice. To stay meek. I’m the one who tells them how to dress, how to walk, how to kill themselves. All they need is a reason as long as they don’t have to think it through. People will believe anything if you tell it to them the right way. Give them a few tokens and they’ll create icons out of you. But not everyone can guide, can lead the lost. Give themselves to the followers who need them, with nothing in return. Like the stars, which seem so small, so meek from here yet are unfathomable, uncontrollable. Like the shepherd, quietly guiding his flock but holding a stick all the while. I’m the one who guides them, who guides them to their destiny. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.