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

Listen to the CD recording of this piece used with the performance art show Death Comes in Threes 03/18/03

Watch this YouTube video from Death Comes In Threes, live 03/18/03 in Chicago

Watch half of the show video from Death Comes In Threes, with this writing, via the Internet Archive (31:34)

Watch this YouTube video (3:12) at the live Jesse Oaks live “UNcorrect” feature 06/21/07

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Listen: (3:48) to this recording from Fusion

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

Watch this YouTube video read at at the open mic Poetry Express (at Priya Indian Cuisine) in Berkeley CA 09/14/09

Watch this YouTube video live at the Lake County 2010 Poetry Bomb at Independence Grove forest preserve 04/18/10

Watch this YouTube video of this poem read over video of her walking around a Serbian church and gravesite in Gurnee, Illinois 01/03/11

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 3/05/11 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) to the Letting it All Out show, live in Lake Villa’s Swing State 03/05/11 with this piece

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (from the book Get Your Buzz On) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (from the book Get Your Buzz On) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God Threshold (in the chapbook “Attacking with Poetry”) 4/27/14 (C) at Chicago’s 2014 Poetry Bomb (in Lincoln Square)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 1)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (C, take 2)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 1)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God in Vicci’s Chicago studio 7/20/14, with video behind her of her drawing this poem (S, take 2)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot, Posterize)

See YouTube video (Nikon CoolPix S7000) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Being God 12/20/15 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry

See YouTube video 12/20/15 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems Being God, Looking For A Worthy Adversary, and True Happiness in the New Millennium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Violence There & Quibbling over Religion, and Being God at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 5/13/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 new poems Violence There & Quibbling over Religion, and Being God at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s (from a Sony camera).

being god Janet Kuypers 04/30/98 I’m tired of dying for your sins over and over again and why is it that I am the one that’s doing the dying when you are the one that’s doing the sinning I don’t think you’re learning your lesson I’m tired of taking this knife to my hands over and over again giving myself the stigmata the blood gets all over my clothes and I can never get the stains out and for what, for you to see how I suffer I’m tired of being humble when I’m supposed to be the one with the power over and over again I become your servant and never are you bowing to me I don’t even get a thank you I’m tired of preaching to the converted when the converted aren’t even really listening they’re snoring in the back rows while I deliver my sermon and there’s not even air conditioning in here and I’m sweating I’m tired of coming to you and healing the sick taking away the problems, over and over again giving you something to look forward to and all I have is an eternity of waiting for someone to take my place and tend to my wounds I’m tired of giving the earth up to you watching the devil’s work be done, and you know, he’s just sitting down there looking at me and laughing, over and over again because it’s so easy for him when he doesn’t have to work I’m tired of being your salvation over and over again you turn to me and I have no one to turn to but myself it’s a bitch, you know, being your own god since no one can save me from me I’m tired of being your teacher, handing you what you need on a silver platter and waiting for that damn collection plate and someone is always stealing out of it from the back row I know who you are, you who leave me nothing I’m tired of wearing this crown of thorns over and over again the needles prick my skin and even gods bleed, at least this one does and when I ask you to wipe the blood out of my eyes, well, I can’t see you anywhere I’m tired of being something for everybody when everyone is nothing for me maybe the devil has the right idea, you know maybe I’ll sit back and wait for you miss me as you wonder who’s your messiah now Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

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