poem “just to be on the safe side”, a poemabout the safety in target shooting the ash off a cigarette in someone’s mouth when they’ 50 feet awat, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 never before read poems One and Six, just to be on the safe side and Trust 5/8/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 never before read poems One and Six, just to be on the safe side and Trust 45/8/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

just to be on the safe side

Janet Kuypers
1/15/16
So we’d take turns.
One of us would stay
fifty feet away
with a cigarette in their mouth
and the other guy
(half the time that was I)
would shoot the ash off the cigarette.
You think this is dangerous.
But we could shoot that distance
within about three inches.
So, oh,
we always made sure
the cigarette was new.
You know,
just to be
on the safe side.

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