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HowMusic

isPoetic

Janet Kuypersmusic & poetry showlive with John Yotko

at the Baha’i Centerin Austin9/3/16

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What We Need In Life

I don’t know where this highway’s taking me anymore andI don’t know the right lines to sayI don’t feel the things that you’re feeling

down deep inside of you butI know this ain’t the way

nothing venturednothing gainednothing changesnothing stays the same

but you go your wayI go minemaybe one daywe will find

what we need in life


I watch the ashes from your cigarettefall to the ground and

I think this fire will die downI think I now see what is happening here

between us andI have to say good bye


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so you go your wayI go minemaybe one daywe will find



I can’t stay bitter and lonely and restless anymore andI can’t be here with youI see the red in your eyes and it scares me half to deathandI’ll take this road alone


you go your wayand I go minemaybe one daywe will find



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Fantastic Car Crash

and our life is one big road trip nowand we set the cruise controland make our way down the expressway.

and most of the time we’re just movingin a straight line, and the sceneryblurs. there’s nothing to see

but I know what’s inside you and Iknow what you’re made of. I knowthere’s no such thing as a calm with you

you are a fantastic car crash. you stoptraffic in both directions as the gapers gawk andthe delay grows and they slow down and stare

everything shatters with you, you know.it’s a spectacular explosion. I tryto duck and cover as metal flies

through the air. and every time you leavethe scene of the accidentI am left picking up the shards of glass

from the windows. you know, the glass breaksinto such tiny little pieces. they look likeice. it takes so long to pick up the pieces


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even though I’m carefulI’m still picking up the piecesand I’m still on my knees

and the glass cuts into my handsand the blood drips down to the street.think of it as my contribution

to this fantastic car crashthat is you, that is me, that is usas I pull the glass from my hands

and I wave my hand to the line of traffic:go ahead, keep driving, this happensall the time, there’s nothing to see here


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Periodic Table element #50 (Sn)

Tin

if I only had a brain

I’d get out from underthis bent tin roofthat covers meas I sleep at night

tin metal sheetskeep the rain awaybut the wind

but the wind

if I only had a brainI wouldn”t standat Third and Lamarand ask for change

You see, the commuterscross that cornerto catch their train

you see, I waitat the other side‘cuz the ones with the moneyhave to walk right by

that’s when I rattlemy old tin cupgive them doe eyessay “God bless”


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but if I only had a brainI wouldn’t rattlemy old tin cupand ask for tin changeI’d get myself up

if I only had a brainI’d have a lot of moneyI’d eat at fancy restaurantsI’d wear the plastic bib

if I only had a brainI wouldn’t be poordrinkingtin cans of Fantaeatingsoup from a tin canlivingon Tin pan alley

if I only had a brain

you might bend mebut I just won’t break‘cuz if I had a brainthen I’d be great

from the Periodic Table of Poetryhttp://scars.tv/periodic-table-of-poetry/


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Made any Difference .

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my favorite hang-outfrom people talking

who’s always herehas had a few strokes

I just heard snippetsput in my two cents

and even though I don’tafter he lit up

toward his smokebut... I wanted his

I told him I heardasked about his kids

get on a high horsewe want him happy

he’ll take some time offsaid that he should quit

and then walked away

sucking nicotinemade any difference

So I’m at my barI just overheard

that another guyin the past few months

and this is grapevinebut I needed to see him

he went out for a smokeI walked up to him

I reached my hand outhe offered me a new one

then holding his smokeI spoke of his wife

and I don’t want tobut we care for him

he said I was rightthen he saw his smoke

handed me the smoke

I stood there a whilewondering if I


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bio Chicago poet Janet Kuypers is a professional performanceartist and publisher. As a writer & photographer, she is the founderof Scars Publications, which hosts two literary magazines, publishesbooks and releases CDs. With over 90 books published (as of05/7/16 of poetry, prose, novels and art), she has sung in 3 acousticbands, and worked with 8 music groups (combining her poetrywith music). From 2010-2016 she hosed a Chicago open mic theCafé Gallery, with a weekly podcast. Her CD releases (40+ in2012) appear at iTunes and other online vendors, found on linethrough http://scars.tv or http://www.janetkuypers.com.

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How Musicis Poeticwith music by John Yotko

. in a show by

Janet Kuyperswww.Janetkuypers.com

scars publicationshttp://scars.tv!

published in conjunction with cc&d magazinethe UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine [email protected] http://scars.tv ISSN 1068-5154 INTERNET ISSN #1555-1555

Writing Copyright © 2016 Janet Kuypers.Design Copyright © 2016 Scars Publications and Design

Magazines: Children, Churches and Daddies (cc&d magazine), founded June 1993; Down in the Dirt, conceived 1994, founded 2000

Books: Hope Chest in the Attic, the Window, Close Cover Before Striking, (Woman.), Autumn Reason, Contents Under Pressure, the Average Guy’s Guide (to Feminism), Changing Gears, the Key to Believing, Domestic Blisters, Etc., Oeuvre, Exaro Versus, L’arte, The Other Side, The Boss Lady’s Editorials (regular and 2005 Expanded Edition), Duality, Seeing Things Differently, Change/Rearrange, Death Comes inThrees, Moving Performances, Six Eleven, Life at Cafe Aloha, Creams, Rough Mixes, The Entropy Project, The Other Side (2006 Edition), Stop., Sing Your Life, The Beauty and the Destruction, cc&d v167.5 (Writing toHonour & Cherish, editor edition), Blister & Burn (the Kuypers edition), S&M, cc&d v170.5 Distinguished Writings editor edition, Living in Chaos, Silent Screams, Taking It All In, It All Comes Down, Rising to the Surface,Galapagos, Chapter 38 (v1, v2 & v3), Finally, Literature for the Snotty and Elite (v1, v2 & part 1), a Wake-Up Call From Tradition, (recovery), Dark Matter: the Mind of Janet Kuypers, Evolution, (tweet), Get Your Buzz On,Janet & Jean Together, po•em, Taking Poetry to the Streets, the Cana-Dixie Chi-town Union, the Written Word, Dual, Prepare Her for This, Uncorrect, Living in a Big World, Pulled the Trigger, Venture to the Unknown,Janet Kuypers: Enriched, She’s an Open Book, “40”, Sexism and Other Stories, the Stories of Women, Prominent Pen (Kuypers edition), Elemental, the 2012 Datebook, Prominent Tongue, Chaotic Elements, Fusion, StabityStabity Stab Stab Stab, a Picture’s Worth 1,000 words (color art book and b&w art book), Life, in Color, Post-Apocalyptic, Burn Through Me, Under the Sea (photo book), Partial Nudity, Revealed, 100 Haikus, Give methe News, Let me See you Stripped, Part of my Pain, Rape Sexism Life & Death, Say Nothing, Twitterati, when you Dream tonight, the Periodic Table of Poetry, a year long Journey, Bon Voyage!, Sulphur & Sawdust, Slate & Marrow, Blister & Burn, Rinse & Repeat, Survive & Thrive, (not so) Warm & Fuzzy, Torture & Triumph, Oh., the Elements, Side A/Side B, Balance, Chaos Theory, Writing To Honour & Cherish, Distinguished Writings,Breaking Silences, Unlocking the Mysteries, the Book of Scars, We The Poets, Life on the Edge, Revealing all your Dirty Little Secrets, Decrepit Remains, Charred Remnants, Hope & Creation, Bending the Curve, Layers of Creation, Dark Matter, Survival of the Fittest, CrawlingThrough the Dirt, Laying the Groundwork, Weathered, echo, Ink in my Blood, (bound) (4 editions), Enriched Poetry, cc&d Enriched Prose, Enriched with Dirt, An Open Book, Literary Town Hall (2 editions), Prominent Pen (2 editions), 100 Words,1,000 Words, the 2012 Literary Date Book, It Was All Preordained, Cultural Touchstone, the Mission (issue edition and chapbooks edition), Purpose, Falling, Cheap Thrills, After the Apocalypse 2013 date book, After the Apocalypse (poery edition),After the Apocalypse (prose edition), Entanglement, Guilt by Association, don’t forget it, don’t listen. read., bare minimum, Poet as Sociopath, Drowning, Art is not Meant to be Touched, the Beaten Path, a New Pen, Need to Know Basis

(redacted edition and extended edition), the “need to know” 2015 literary date book, one Solitary Word, What Must be Done, Adrift, Salvation, the 2016 literary date book anthology, the Chosen Few, Sunlight in the Sanctuary, from Smoke, the Intersection, A Stormy Beginning, Clouds over the Moon, Give What You Can, Come Fly with Me, Out of the Web, Don’t Tread on Me, Entering the Ice Age, Entering the Ice Age, the Line to Power, Fear the Forsaken, Falling Into Place, Unknown, Forever Bound, Exploding on the Scene, Moving the Earth, Autumn Again, Up In Smoke, No Return, Wrapping It Up, Link in th Chain, Shot out of a Cannon,Incisible Ink, a ew era, Idols, Friction, Sea Drift, and Then he Moved, Approaching Front, Beyond the Gates, the Curve of Arctic Air, Idea, a Mad Escape, Testament, the New Deal, the Captive and the Dead, When the Walls are Paper Thin, Nighttime City, Suggested Torture, Down in the Dirt v084, Clearing the Debris, Skeletal Remains, Whenthe World Settles, Along the Surface, Into the White, Life... from Nothing, Down In It, Wake Up and Smell the Flowers, Looking Beyond, See the World Burn, America the Lost, Catch Fire in the Treetops, Wisdom in Broken Hands, Symbols Manifest, Grounded, Perfectly Imperfect, I Pull the Strings, am I really extinct, Home at Last, Spiralling, aRural Story, Treading Water, Black Cat, a Bad Influence, Too Many Miles, the Path of Least Resistance, hello goodbye goodbye hello, When the Walls are Paper Thin, Planets Apart, Planets Apart, Nighttime City, the Breaking, Syggested Torture, New moon, a Perfect Solitude, 6 Feet Under, The Hive, the 23 Enigma, Suicidal Birds, Being Real, Infamous in our Prime, Anais Nin: an Understanding of her Art, the Electronic Windmill, Changing Woman, the Swan Road, the Significance of the Frontier, The Svetasvatara Upanishad, Harvest of Gems, the Little Monk, Death in Málaga, Momento Mori, In the Palace of Creation, R.I.P., Bob theBumble Bee, Remnants and Shadows, I Saw This, the Drive, Thomas at Tea, Crashing Down Nineteenth, Blue Collar Ballet, nopoem, In Your Heart the Apostrophe’s Teardrops of God, the Adventures of the Key to Believing Bear, Anais Nin: an Understanding of her Art (second printing), Deckard Kinder / Charlie Newman, 12 Times 12 EqualsGross, a Marble Nude Pauline Borchese with a Marble Apple in her Marble Hand, Challenge of Night and Day and Chicago Poems, Lighten Up, Not Far From Here, Watershed, You Have Finally Won, Avenue C, Suburban Rhythms, Down Syndrome, the Dark Side of Love, The pill is a man’s best Friend, Angel’s SyllableIs Good Boss of Devil’s Spine, Poems and Stories from The Blue Collar Book of the Dead, Cat People, Death of an Angel, Ghost, Science: A Curmudgeon’s View, Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome, the 4-D Window, Open Wounds, Anime Junkie, Interstice, Gunther, Cuts, Scream Cloud Island, When the World wasBlack and White, a Petal Under Pavement, The Holy See of CEE, Book 15 * Thailand to Volcanoes, Lost in an Echo, I Was Charles Bronson’s Secret Hostage, Erasable Bond, Royal Dano’s Death Scene ‘tis of Thee, Understood, Akashic Shotgun, Champagne - Hot Water, How a Bullet Behaves, the Thing in the Lounge atWagonWheel (I Come in Avarice), Postcards from Exile, the Five Stages of Macbeth, Stay in Formation, Shadowing Other Footprints, the Girl Next Door and Other Poems, Major Arcana, Sine Peoria Nulla est Gloria, Short Takes, Seeing Strangers, Re-Viewing Anais, The Tribes Joshua Drove Out of the Land, Butcheryof the Innocent, Hammer-Chained, No Raft — No Ocean, Dancing at the Abyss, a nation of assholes with guns, the Blazing Hands of 100 Drummers, Make the Wind, The Planner, the Corrosion, The Pyre On Which Tomorrow Burns,

Compact Discs: Mom’s Favorite Vase the demo tapes, Kuypers the final (MFV Inclusive), Weeds and Flowers the beauty & the desolation, The Second Axing Something is Sweating, The Second Axing Live in Alaska, Pettus & Kuypers Live at Cafe Aloha, Pointless Orchestra Rough Mixes, Kuypers Seeing Things Differently, 5D/5D Tick Tock, Kuypers Change Rearrange, Order From Chaos The Entropy Project, Kuypers Six One One, Kuypers Stop., Kuypers Masterful Performances mp3 CD, Kuypers Death Comes in Threes, Kuypers Changing Gears, Kuypers Dreams, Kuypers How Do I Get There?, Kuypers Contact•Conflict•Control, the DMJ Art Connection the DMJ Art Connection, Kuypers Questions in a World Without Answers, KuypersSIN, Kuypers WZRD Radio (2 CD set), Mom’s Favorite Vase and The Second Axing These Truths, assorted artists String Theory, Oh (audio CD), Life At The Cafe (3 CD set), the DMJ Art Connection Indian Flux, the DMJ Art Connection Manic Depressive or Something, Chaotic Radio Chaotic Radio Week #1, Chaotic Radio Chaotic Radio Week #2, Chaotic Radio Chaotic Radio Week #3, Chaotic Radio Chaotic RadioWeek #4, Chaotic Radio Chaotic Radio Week #5, Chaotic Radio the Chaotic Collection Collection #01-05 (5 CD set) etc. (audio CD, 2 CD set), Chaotic Elements (2 CD set), Chaos in Motion (6 CD set), 5D/5D Screeching to a Halt (EP), PB&J Two for the Price of One (EP), Kiki, Jake and Haystack An American Portrait, Kuypers/the Bastard Trio/Paul Baker/the JoAnne Pow!ers Trio Fusion (4 CD set), podcaststhe Evolution of Performance Art (13 CD set), Kuypers Live (14 CD set), the DMJ Art Connection the Things They Did to You (2 CD set), Kuypers Seeing a Psychiatrist (3 CD set), Kuypers St. Paul’s (3 CD set), Kuypers the 2009 Poetry Game Show (3 CD set), Kuypers and the HA!man of South Africa Burn Through Me (2 CD set), Kuypers “40”, Kuypers Sexism and Other Stories, Kuypers the Stories of Women(amazon.com release), Kuypers “Dobro Veče” (4 CD set) Kuypers “hmmm” (4 CD set), Kuypers “Letting it All Out”, Kuypers “What We Need In Life” (CD sngle), , Kuypers “Made Any Difference” (CD sngle), , Kuypers/Hardwick “Across the Pond” (3 CD set).

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