[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]

cry for me she never like to see her daughter cry it would make her cry too “you go in there, talk to her” she would say to another daughter i remember once crying at my father and running upstairs to my bedroom i was laying on my bed in the dark my sister tried to come in i told her to leave me alone then my mother knocked and i couldn’t tell her to go away she came in, sat on the bed started crying “you see, i always turn into a mess” but it was nice to see you cry for me Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the main camera

Watch the YouTube video Published in her book Close Cover Before Striking, read (for future audio CD release) 06/28/11 on WZRD radio, from the mini camera

See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of the majority of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the main camera

See feature-length YouTube video 06/26/11 of ~45 minutes of the WZRD radio show with her reading poetry (including this poem) from the mini cam

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of cry for me (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 cry for me (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, INCLUDING THIS POEM

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, INCLUDING THIS POEM

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