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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin (Cps), first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 5/7/16 show “Love in the Universe” in her first scheduled feature at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful in Austin (Sony), first singing (with John singing and on guitar) the Depeche Mode song The Bottom Line (with altered chorus lyrics for heir wedding), then with her poems Pluto, Plutonium & Death (a bonus Periodic Table poem), her haiku universe, observer’s love poem (2016 edit), everything is my home, Wanted To Play, and electricity.

Download all of the show poems in the free chapbook Love in the Universe 5/7/16 at Expressions 2016: Reasons to be Cheerful show in Austin

everything is my home Janet Kuypers 4/15/16 I’ve always thought I was a child of the world; I feed off the energies of the Universe. Everything is bound together intrinsically, so everything is my home, and nothing is my home. I feel so connected with everything, and at the same time I feel so isolated. It’s sad, feeling lonely in a crowded room. I’ve shunned the place where I was raised, I avoid ties to my roots because they’re not mine. I told you, atom by atom I’m a product of stardust, and where I am home is everywhere else. And with no home, oh yes yes, I have four walls I’ve packed belongings from my past into spaces, but all this time my roots have searched for ground to seep into while I remain gasping for air. Now I found a place with you, and when I walk out my door at night waiting there, right outside my front door, my favorite constellation in the night sky, is right there to greet me. And now that I look around me I see traces of my past I love in the greenery around my home. For the first time in my life I cut my own grass, I pull my own weeds, I water the seeds we placed in the ground on our land. And I’m wondering if I can finally take a deep breath, inhale, exhale. I’ve never had roots. I want you to understand this. But I wonder if I can rake my fingers through this dirt — our dirt, on our land — well, maybe we can get our hands a little dirty, and finally have a place that we can call home.

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