poem “jabbed into an open nerve”, a poem about how sometimes your soul feels and hides so much pain, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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jabbed into
an open nerve
Janet Kuypers
8/18/14
I am afraid of what I might say
because it may sound like how I feel
like someone has jabbed a metal pin
against the open nerve of the exposed cavity
in my rat-like teeth

what does it feel like to read a soul

a soul like mine
I don’t know
but let me brace you:
rehashing this,
revealing this
it just
might
hurt

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her improv of Jabbed into an Open Nerve live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her improv of Jabbed into an Open Nerve/U> live 10/7/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (C)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem jabbed into an open nerve in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem jabbed into an open nerve in her Chicago feature “Nerves of a Poet” live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou 11/21/14 with music from the HA!Man of South Africa (SCG)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (C, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S crop, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S crop glow, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem jabbed into an open nerve from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem jabbed into an open nerve from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)

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