poem Building Houses out of Pallets, a poem about how poverty in the Dominican Republic leads people to build houses out of wood pallets, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Building Houses
out of Pallets
Janet Kuypers
5/12/12
I’ve heard that in poor places
                        in South Africa
They build houses out of extra pieces
                        of scrap metal.
But here in the Dominican Republic,
                        I saw them
building houses out of pallets.
I thought for a second about
                        artist paint pallets,
and of course, I came back to
                        these large wood pallets
for hauling mass product from point A
                        to point B,
and all I could think was:
Hmmm. Houses made out of
                        pallets. Hmmm.

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Building Houses out of Pallets in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Building Houses out of Pallets in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200), of 14 poems with background music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of 14 poems with background music

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“India Stories”,
w/ poems read to music on 3/14/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago

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