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Watch this YouTube video read live at the Cafe 7/8/08

See the video of Now You’re Nothing To Me & Dreams 09/07/07 live 7/8/08 (6:48) This film is from the Internet Archive

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 09/07/07, then covering (John on guitar) the Peter Gabriel Song Washing of the Water at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Dreams 09/07/07, then covering (John on guitar) the Peter Gabriel Song Washing of the Water at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s 4/27/16 (from a Sony camera).

Dreams 09/07/07 I was at the old house and they were still living there, they were having people over and I was outside toward the end of the driveway and I can’t tell you why I was there, I didn’t know what I was doing but I saw myself lifting the windshield wipers from someone else’s car and then I placed what look like three tiny metal marbles at the bottom sides and center of the windshield after I did this I took one step backwards and watched the newly-formed snow and frost on the windshield start to melt away because of what I had done I found this fascinating, and then I saw the entire windshield start to shake so I stepped backwards away from this car as the window shook more and more until the windshield completely explode from the pressure I couldn’t believe what I just saw and I was sure someone from inside the house heard the noise so I ran towards the trees in the ravine to hide I don’t know why I was there or why I attached these foreign pieces to some stranger’s car and I couldn’t believe I took part in this minor form of terrorism so while I was at the tree line I floated up in the tree to stay out of the way until I thought I saw the lights in the house change so I got down onto the ground where I could see lights change in the house which made me think someone would be coming outside to see what happened to see what I had done so although my feet remained off the ground, I crawled with only my hands touching the wooded ground below like I was almost hovering and i tried to move deeper into the ravine I crawled with my hands over toward to pool outhouse toward the back yard of the house and I heard a car, so I looked toward the diveway and saw someone actually coming toward the house, the car slowing down, like they were about to park in the driveway but I watched the car and could see two heads in the front seats one man, one woman and I could see the woman’s head pointed straight toward me and she was pointing in my direction I know I wasn’t blending in with the ravine that surrounded me and I panicked, because these strangers found me Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.