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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Rings like Gravestones 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Rings like Gravestones 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Rings Like Gravestones 07/05/06 I like to have nice rings on my fingers I don’t have much, but I like gemstones on my rings, I don’t bother with big earrings or expensive necklaces I think they’re too much but I like rings and it makes me feel bad, in a way that my mother gave me a few of her rings knowing she was going to die and not wanting her children to argue over who gets what so I’ve got these rings I like to wear but now I know for a fact that on each of my middle fingers whenever I go out in public I’ll be wearing rings my mother gave me not even ones she gave me before but ones she gave knowing she would die soon but I wear these rings it’s not like I have a choice in the matter anymore and I know that no one thinks anything of the rings I’m wearing so I become the only one treating these rings live gravestones when no one has even died yet Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.