[the Writing of Kuypers]
a lobster tank @ a bar
8 lobsters
if I ever caught 1
Twitter version:
“you catch ‘em we cook ‘em”
if I caught 1
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Pinchy
Janet Kuypers
06/18/10
had a sign that said,
“you catch ‘em we cook ‘em”
w/ a carnival-style
pincher
try your luck
4 only $2
I wouldn’t eat it
he’d be my crustacean pet
& I’d call him PinchyPinchy
Janet Kuypers
06/18/10
@ a bar lobster tank
w/ carnival pincher
only $2
I wouldn’t eat it
Pinchy’d be my crustacean pet 
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.
