poem Know You, a poem about the strangeness, when you wear a name tag for work, when strangers use your name when talking to you, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Know You
Janet Kuypers
5/10/12
It’s weird
wearing a
name tag
for this job
because
every once
in a while
someone starts
talking to you
and they
make a point
to state
your name
And that’s when
you realize
you’re suddenly
at a
disadvantage
because
you’re just
trying
to do
your job
and this
stranger
keeps saying
your name
When they
say your name
like that
it sounds like
they’re
broadcasting
it
to the
world
You almost feel
like you’re in
an interrogation
room
with the light
in your face
and they
already know
you

Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 6/20/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know You from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Know You from her 2014 poetry book Partial Nudity at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (S)

YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Know You, Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas and Overweight Reasons, plus Robin Williams’ lines on why we read and write poetry in an excerpt from Dead Poets Society at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (C)

YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Know You, Physical Reactions to Emotional Traumas and Overweight Reasons, plus Robin Williams’ lines on why we read and write poetry in an excerpt from Dead Poets Society at an 8/18/14 open mic at Chicago’s Waiting 4 the Bus (S)

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