[the Writing of Kuypers]    [JanetKuypers.com]    [Bio]    [Poems]    [Prose]

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Listen (or listen live) to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Contact•Conflict•Control

Listen to the CD recording from the CD Rough Mixes, by Pointless Orchestra

Watch the YouTube video (2:59) 04/01/05 (April Fool’s Day) Live at the DvA Chicago Art Gallery show Conflict • Contact • Control

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show the Stories of Women

Watch this YouTube video 12/04/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show the Stories of Women

See Kuypers’ full show video with this & more from the TV monitor in the the Stories of Women show, in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 at Swing State

See the full show video of Kuypers reading this & more in the the Stories of Women show in in Visual Nonsense, live in Lake Villa 12/04/10 with this writing at Swing State (last line of last story cut off)

Watch this YouTube video read live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, with music & video from the HA!man of South Africa

Watch this Complete feature video of Kuypers live 10/04/11 in the the Café show 10/04/11, performing this poem and more with video & music from musicians around the world

Watch this Complete feature video of the FULL SHOW of most everyone live 10/04/11 at the Café for Chicago Calling, including Kuypers performing poetry with music & video

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000)

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000)

See YouTube video 1/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled, Women’s Very Existence and Burn It In from her book Rape, Sexism, Life & Death and her poem ever leave me from the cc&d book When the Walls are Paper Thin at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot)

women’s very existence rape is neither a sex crime or a crime of passion rape is not an isolated brutal crime against women rape is often premeditated rape is a crime of violence rather than sex it is a crime of violence against women it is an attack by men on women’s bodies on women’s feelings on women’s very existence                                             Bob Lamm, 1976 i still have to take showers a lot. i mean, every once in a while, no matter how clean i am to the rest of the world, i have to go take a shower. i lock all the doors, i close the shades on the windows, i put a towel over the bathroom mirror. turn the water on, piping hot, so steam is billowing out of the bath tub. i finally undress, open the curtain, put my foot in, burn my foot with the water. i wish i could hold my foot there, just a little longer. i turn down the water. wait for it to cool down, then step in. then i just put my head under the shower head. hold it there for a while. catch my breath. get the soap. start scrubbing. i use the soap first, then i get the bath brush. scrub off a layer of skin. i know this makes no sense. my skin is red, from the heat, from the scrubbing. but i know i’m still not getting it off, it’s down there, the molecules are embedded deep inside of me, and i’ll have to rip my skin off, pull out my organs before it goes away. but for now all i can do is take showers. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.