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Listen to The DMJ Art Connection, off the CD The DMJ Art Connection Disc One You can also hear a different version of this off the CD Indian Flux

Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

Watch this YouTube video from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

Watch the YouTube video The poems (I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well and Death is a Dog, 4:11) at the Jesse Oaks Lake County Politically UNcorrect poetry open mic (n. of Chicago) on 05/24/07

Watch this YouTube video (2:10) live at Jesse Oaks 07/19/07

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Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic at Sacred Grounds in San Francisco CA 09/16/09

Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

Watch this YouTube video (3/5/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

Watch this YouTube video (34:48) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

See YouTube video Live at My Soul in the Trunk of my Car at Trunk Fest (part 2), in an outdoor Evanston IL feature 05/28/11

See the YouTube full video of My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2) at Trunk Fest, live 05/28/11, w/ this writing

Download the chapbook with this writing in My Soul in the Trunk of my Car (part 2)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’m Not Sick, but I’m Not Well (from the book Fragments) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem I’m Not Sick, but I’m Not Well (from the book Fragments) in Chicago 11/24/13 (Threshold filter) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

I’m not sick but I’m not well Janet Kuypers 07/02/98 I’m not sick but I’m not well and I’m sure there’s something I can do about this I’ve popped the aspirin        the tylenol        the ibuprofen        the codine        the prozac        the sleeping pills and that thermometer is down my throat and I’m gagging I’m not sick but I’m not well the doctors find nothing wrong with me and believe me, they’ve taken the x-rays they’ve striped me down and made me wear one of those awful paper robes and they’ve felt me up and checked me out and found what they were looking for but didn’t find anything I was looking for I’m not sick but I’m not well and I can’t help but think that everything I’m doing to make things better might only be making things worse so I don’t want to listen to what you have to say anymore and I want this IV out of my arm and I want this oxygen tube out from my nose and I want this suppository out of my ass and I want you to get that scalpel away from me because I want everything I’ve got I’m not sick but I’m not well and they want me if they can keep me in line and they want me if they can cut me open        and take out my insides        and suck out the fat        and suck out the life        and make me generic        and make me dependent        make me unreal        make me not whole and i’ve walked that line with all you doctors and I want all my parts back and I want to be healthy no, I’m not sick and maybe I’m not well but you’re only making me worse I don’t have the answers but neither do you so instead of tearing me apart        and dissecting me        and studying the bones let me just stay together for a while until I figure it all out Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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