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Order this iTunes track: from the Chaotic Collection ...Or order the entire 5 CD set from iTunes: CD:

Listen to the CD recording of this, from the CD Change/Rearrange

Listen to this live at Live at Cafe Aloha (Janet Kuypers/Jason Pettus show)

Watch this YouTube video live at the show Questions in a World Without Answers 10/05/04, Chicago

watch the full Questions in a World Withough Answers video live, including this poem in Chicago 10/05/04 (~21:56)

Listen to this from the CD release from the first performance art show (08/14/97) Seeing Things Differently

Listen to this radio recording from WZRD Radio (in a 2 CD set)

Watch this YouTube video (8:18) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07 Also see this video at TRUVEO & 630 info See the above YouTube video on redo or even netlog (explore)... Check out this video on websurf Or see more info about this video about websites at cascadiacomic.com

Listen: (6:46) to this recording from Fusion

Watch the YouTube video (2:22) 04/01/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control

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Watch this YouTube video (4:05) live 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success JK poetry show

See the full Youtube show live JK poetry show w/ gutar 10/15/10 at Power Networking for Success with “Type A Person” & “Communication”

Watch this YouTube video 03/05/11 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Letting it All Out

Watch this YouTube video (5:56, of just the poem) 03/05/11 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Letting it All Out

Watch this YouTube video of Kuypers from the TV monitor in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 at Swing State

Watch this YouTube video (34:48) of Kuypers in the “Letting it All Out” show, live in Lake Villa 03/05/11 with this writing at Swing State

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon Power Shot), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 8/31/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), with an edited version of her poem Communication, plus her poems Death Takes Many Forms, True Happiness in the New Millennium, and Other Souls.

communication I now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before our pleas become computer blips tiny bits of energy travelling through razor thin wires travelling through space to be left for someone to decipher when they find the time II got into work the other day and got my messages out of voice mail: mike left me his pager number and told me to contact him with some information another mike told me to call him at the office between ten thirty and noon lori told me to check my email because she sent me a message i had to read so i first returned mike’s phone call but he wasn’t in, so i left a message with a coworker and then i dialed the number for mike’s pager listened to a beep, then dialed in my own phone number then i got online, checked my email read a note from ben, emptied out the junk mail realizing i didn’t actually get a hold of anybody i tried to call my friend sheri but i got her answering machine so i said, “hi - it’s me, janet - haven’t talked to you in a while - ” at which point i realized there was nothing left to say - “so, give me a call, we should really get together and talk” III sara and i were late for carol’s wedding rehearsal which was a bad thing, because we were both standing up in the wedding and we were stuck in traffic, and i asked, “sara, you have a cel phone, don’t you?“ and she said “yes” and i asked, “well, do you know carol’s cel phone number, cause if you do, we can call her and tell her we’ll be late -” and she said, “no - do you know it?” and i said “no” IV I was out at a bar with Dave, and I was explaining to him why I hadn’t talked to my friend Aaron in a while: “You see, we usually email each other, and when we do, we just hit ‘reply.’ when you get an email from someone, instead of having to start a new letter and get their email address, you can just hit the ‘reply’ button on the email message, and it will make a letter addressed to the person who wrote you the letter originally. so one of us sent the other a letter, and it had a question at the end, so i hit ‘reply’ and sent a response, with another question at the end of my letter. so we kept having to answer questions for each other, and we just kept replying to each other, sending a letter with the same title back and forth to each other. well, once i got an email from him and there was no question at the end, and so i didn’t have to send him a response. so i didn’t. and we never thought to start a new email to one another. so we just lost touch.” and then it occurred to me, how difficult it had become to type an extra line of text, because that’s why i lost touch with him and then it occurred to me, no matter how many different forms of communication we have, we’ll still find a way to lose touch with each other V now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before but what if we don’t want to communicate or forget how too busy leaving messages, voice mails, emails, pager numbers forgetting to call back what if we forget how to communicate VI i wanted to purchase tickets for a concert but i was shopping with my sister and wasn’t near a ticket outlet but my sister said, “i have a portable phone, you can call them if you’d like” so she gave me the phone, and i looked at all these extra buttons, and she said, “just press the ‘power’ button, but hold it down for at least four seconds, until the panel lights up, then dial the number, but use the area code, because this phone is a 630 area code, then press ‘send’. when you’re done with the call, just press ‘end’, and make sure the light turns off.” so i turned it on, dialed the number, pressed ‘send’, pressed my head against the tiny phone and the line was busy and i couldn’t get through VII i wanted to get in touch with an old friend of mine from high school, vince, and the last i heard was that he went to marquette university. well, that was five years ago, he could be anywhere. i talked to a friend or two that knew him, but they lost touch with him, too. so i searched on the internet, to see if his name was on a website or if he had an email address. he didn’t. so i figured i probably wouldn’t find him. and all this time, i knew his parents lived in the same house they always did, i could just look up his parent’s phone number in the phone book, and call them, say i’m an old high school friend of vince’s, but i never did. and then i realized why. you see, i could search the internet for hours and no one would know that i was looking for someone. but now, with a single phone call, i’d make it known to his family that i wanted to see him enough to call, after all these years. and i didn’t want him to know that. so i never called. VIII now that we have the information superhighway we can throw out into the open our screams our cries for help so much faster than we could before but then the question begs itself: who is there to listen Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

Watch the YouTube video below (or click on the video image to view this video in another window) (8:18) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07