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Falling From the Sky

Janet Kuypers, 06/16/07 (11:27 A.M. mountain time)

I’m taking a one-way flight today

And you know, when people say they have a one-way ticket
You assume the plane
                                    is landing them somewhere
And not flying them back

But lucky me, my only way back
Is to jump out of the sky

And hope I land on my own two feet

And my flight takes off
In just a little while
And I can feel that tension knot
That knot’s rope, being pulled
By all my nerves

And like it was heartburn
I want to slam my fist into my chest
To try to make the pain go away

So I’ve spent all my life
Trying to soar so high

But I guess I have to be prepared
For coming back to earth


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Revealing all your Dirty Little Secrets, 2007 Down in the Dirt collection book, front cover Life on the Edge, 2007 ccd collection book, front cover It All Comes Down, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover Rising to the Surface, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover


video Watch the YouTube video below
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not yet rated (:56) in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/07, written and
performed hours before Kuypers jumped out of an airplane


video Watch the YouTube skydiving video below
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not yet rated (6:07) Skydiving in Longmont, Colorado 06/16/07

my hand to an anim of jkchair