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Here’s an addition for your
if we’re talking about
god, i don’t even know how to
Listen live 
to the 2nd Axing at the open mic Sing Your Life, and on the CD Sing Your Life through iTunes.
Watch this YouTube video
live at the Cafe in Chicago 11/17/09
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live at the Winking Lizard in Ohio 10/10/08
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live at Beach Poets 08/15/10 in Chicago (with John Yotko on guitar)
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1:59, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories
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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories
See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State
See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State
See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Cps) reading her 2 poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.
See YouTube video 3/13/16 of Janet Kuypers (Nikon) reading her 2 poems The Measuring Scale from her book The Average Guy’s Guide (to feminism) and ex boyfriends became goldfish at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry.
the measuring scale
degrading terminology
of women list. In the
construction field they
(men) have devised another
form of measurement.
When something is being
lowered or fitted into place
they will often refer
to an inch or so as:
up or down about a cunt hair.
They have gone so far
as to determine that blonde
pubic hair is the smallest
increment and at the other
end of the measuring scale
is black pubic hair.
Pam, via the internet
why don’t you dissect me,
take every single part of me
and equate it with power tools,
sports and violence?
bang me, screw me, nail me,
hammer me, bag me, pump
me. shoot it in me. maybe you
can even score.
measuring scales, what about
the scale that defines the way
you treat us:
on one end is the minor stuff,
calling us “baby” and “sugar,”
whistling as we walk by, but
then move along the scale, get to
the blonde jokes, yes, they’re so
funny, then how about a pinch
in the rear at the office,
well, that’s harmless enough
and while you’re at it, porn
movies and magazines, what harm
do they do, and hey, women
have always worked at home,
so you should have all the jobs
and get the better pay anyway
and since we’re just your pro-
perty, fuck us whenever you
want, i mean, hey, you’re doing
it already in every other aspect
of our repressed, oppressed lives
so rape us, smack us around
knock us down a flight of stairs
that’s what we’re here for
measure these things any more
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