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Watch the YouTube video live in Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 at Beach Poets

Watch the full video of the full Death ‘n’ Rebirth 07/11/10 show at Beach Poets, from archive.org

download the free chapbook Death ‘n’ Rebirth with all of the writing in the live show

Watch this YouTube video 11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 4/8/13 at the Frankenstone art center in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers performing poetry including this poem in a poetry reading as she was called the “Headliner” 4/8/13 at Chicago’s Frankenstone art center (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Left with a Hole live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

Left with a Hole Janet Kuypers 07/05/10 you ever see tee vee shows, or in the movies how some protagonist would fall into a coma i don’t know from what, a gun shot, a car crash well, every time they wake up from their coma and they’re under from like four weeks to four years they come to and they’re mentally just fine they talk in complete sentences, and they remember what happened to them right up until the catastrophe But let me be the voice of experience in the real world, that’s not the way it goes you don’t remember what happened right before the coma began, you’ll wake up confused because your long-term memory never got the chance to save your short-term memories from that fateful day when you wake up, you’ll have to train yourself to walk and talk and eat again you’ll fall out of your hospital bed trying to leave you’ll want to kill the people who did this to you you’ll want to scream your story to the world as they put you in restraints at night you know, for your own protection you’ll want to rip that food tube out of you, but you’ll be afraid to put food in your mouth. look, you’ll have to remind yourself that you’ve done this before, it’s not hard, everyone does it put some food on a fork, put it in your mouth, remove fork, start chewing, and just swallow. I know it seems strange, but you can do this. you have to build your life again, piece by piece, I mean, you did this from scratch when you were a baby, you’re an adult now, you can retrain yourself people will ask you if you remember what happened to you that fateful day, and they’ll think it’s just like the movies and everyone just snaps out of their coma good as new you won’t know how to tell them that you’ll never be as good as new and nothing you can say will make them understand that even though you woke up, those bastards who did this to you, they took so much that you can’t even remember the seconds before your life was forever changed for the worse. you’re left with a hole. they even took your memories of the last seconds of your life from you Copyright © 2010 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.