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Photo Studio Packages
Janet Kuypers
5/12/12
So at my job,
I’m supposed to sell
photo studio packages
to people walking by.
Now, I know what I’m selling
is a great bargain,
I just bought one for myself,
but forty-five percent
of the people that come by
speak another language,
and forty-three percent
of the people use canes,
wheelchairs or oxygen masks.
This leaves me twelve percent
of the people that walk by
that I have a chance
to talk to, much less
sell anything to.
So all I can do
is keep grinning,
because I have no choice,
it’s my job,
and someday someone’s
gonna see my smile,
see what’s for sale
and save me
until the next customer.
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of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus, Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.
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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her first set of poetry at her “Unread” Beach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (filmed from a Canon fs200, with John strumming on an acoustic guitar), including the poems Excuses to Ignore me, Photo Studio Packages, Grinning from Ear to Ear, Get His Product to Town, Really Do Drive like Madmen, Exposed Ankles, Pork Skins, Jet Puffed, Goblins on Top of the Bus,
Fit Together Like That, Fake Face, Know what I know, Pistol Case, I have to Explain, and Jack, Charles, Michael.
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