[the Writing of Kuypers]
we’ve had to go sorting through the paperwork
but they found baptism records,
and we just noticed
and I have records of our family
and unless the records I was given were wrong
and dad has always gone by Kuypers
us Dutch folk like astronomy, apparently
so I don’t know what our name really should be
so I suppose it’s just funny
and it’s funny to see my name in astronomy
you know, to give me one more connection
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the Kuipers Name
Janet Kuypers, 09/02/06 #1
mom kept records of everything,
probably dating back to nineteen seventy
passport records, communion papers,
birth certificates
that on dad’s birth certificate
his last name,
and out grandfather’s name,
is actually spelled “Kuipers”
back to our great great great great great
grandfather, born in 1767 in Heusden
our last name has always been Kuypers
but when I read this, I thought of
the astronomer the Kuiper belt is named after
and hey, all of the kids birth certificates
say “Kuypers,” not “Kuipers”
the Dutch are great architects
and we’ve been architects, or
in the contruction business
or like me, a photographer of architecture
and by chance someone spelling my dad’s name
on his birth certificate with an “i”
to something I love
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