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Watch this YouTube video live at Beach Poets 07/13/08

07/13/08, Beach Poets Watch the entire performance video, which contains this poem 25:19, from the Internet Archive

Watch this YouTube11/23/10, live at the Café in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the intro from the open mic at the Café and then the reading of this poem, read in Chicago 11/23/10

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems Catching a Muscovy, into Couldn’t Take It Home 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park poetry and music event in Austin TX (iPhone).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems Catching a Muscovy, into Couldn’t Take It Home 7/9/16 at Native South Food Park poetry and music event in Austin TX (iPhone, Posterized).

Catching a Muscovy One year, Doc Wiggins decided he wanted to shoot one of the Muscovy ducks and have it for Thanksgiving. As far as ducks go, the Muscovies are pretty ugly - the males look something like turkeys, and in Southwest Florida, in this heavily pop- ulated area, they are so used to people that they will walk up to you, expecting food. Well, one year, bless his heart, Doc Wiggins decided he wanted to shoot one for Thanksgiving dinner, so I taught him how to use my rifle and we went to a nearby lake. Then Doc started to worry. “What if my bullet ricochets off the water and hits something else?” So he was in a bit of a panic, trying to figure out what to do. So I told him just to sit tight a minute, and sure enough, a Muscovy walked right up to him and looked at him. So Doc looked at me, then the duck, and just picked it up and brought it home. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.