poem Gouge Out Their Eyes, a poem about carving a Halloween pumpkin written to sound like being a mass murderer, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Gouge Out Their Eyes
Janet Kuypers
(01/23/12)
looking forward to my little ritual,
I searched out my next victim
and gain gratification by gaining
total control over someone else
looked forward to getting them alone
and cutting out the top of their head
driving my knife through their skull,
cutting down to their fleshy intellect
so I could scoop out their brains
feel bits of the organ in my bare hands
clear out their skull,
make them hollow
gouge out their eyes
open their mouth wide
so the world could see
how empty my victims now were
I didn’t do this often
otherwise I might have been caught
all these years
of debasing someone weaker
this was my little ritual
and I was ready to share my secret
with just the right person,
to help me get rid of the remains
to revel with me
in this
little game I play
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I found someone,
I confided with them
and they told me this
was against their religion
I begged,
I pleaded
and the only way
they would join me
is if they could take the skull
and throw it from a building roof
after we were done
dismembering them
you know,
to further destroy the evidence
and I agreed
so we drank in the sewer
and drew up our plan
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that may have been
one of the last times
I did this to someone,
because it really was fun —
in the middle of the night,
when no one else was around —
watching their hollow skull
splatter on the ground
I think it was closure,
the final piece to this ritual
where after so much destruction,
I could say my work was done

(this is a poem about a pumpkin)

Watch the YouTube video
of John Yotko reading this Janet Kuypers poem at the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, from the house camera

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ intro to the open mike 2/29/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus other open mike poets, and her poetry (from the house camera), including this poem

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (C fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gouge Out Their Eyes 10/5/15 at Weeds open mic in Chicago (Canon PS)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cfs), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There, She’s Going Home, and Some People Want to Believe.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 4 poems 10/5/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Cps), w/ Gouge Out Their Eyes, If She’s There, She’s Going Home, and Some People Want to Believe.

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