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Listen (or listen live) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Singular     studio version: live version: practice version:

Watch this YouTube video listen: (2:45) read from her ISBN# book Distinguidhed Writing (the Kuypers edition) live 03/22/11 at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro to the 03/22/11 open mic at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 10/3/12 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers’ open mic intro 10/3/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, + poetry (including this piece)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of A Little Angel Inside (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of A Little Angel Inside (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 14 poem readings about her mother

See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 14 poem reading about her mother

Download these poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (from a Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems A Little Angel Inside, Whether Or Not It Is From Religion and The Power of the Devil at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 3/25/16 (from a Nikon CooPix S7000).

A Little Angel Inside Janet Kuypers, 09/11/06 #3 it seems strange, that on the day the towers fell five years ago where every television station and newspaper is praising our resolve for all of the death             that has been forced upon us well, it seems strange that this is the day the death certificates became available from Fuller Funeral Home and this is the day we pick up my mother’s ashes seems eerily strange my sister is holding some ashes to be made into a diamond from mom so they came to us with a small container for her and a larger cardboard box of all of mom and Kristina from Fuller Funeral Home even handed me a small maroon bag tied tightly shut and she whispered to me, “these are your mother’s earrings” I knew the dress we chose for her the dress she wore to my wedding would be burned with her in her cremation but it never occurred to me that the earring would survive and here they are, in a little velour bag for me like how people try to keep something from the fall of the World Trade centers who lived through that horrendous day well, I think, maybe this is what I’ll keep if anyone argues about them I’ll say, I lost her dress from my wedding for the cremation so these earrings are a gift to me now sorry I know, they’re clip-on earrings and they’re not real diamonds but they are three pretty little stones today, tomorrow and forever and they look so dainty and delicate and they’re a good way for me to remember her when we left Fuller Funeral Home today dad carried the paperwork, the death certificates and I carried mom with us in her little containers and I think I held that little red bag like there was a little angel inside and I had to be delicate to make sure nothing happened to it because I was it’s keeper now I’ll treat it well and treasure it always I promise Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.