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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Janet Spinoto, Mother of 3 I knew so many people If only I mourned so many people I wonder if johannes remembers me Am I supposed to cry for him? Am I supposed to remember him? I wish I knew of more than his name I still respect you, to this day Nineteen years after you died For a cause you believed in. Or a chance moment I’ll bet. My memory of you and a memory your grand kid remembers This is what I’ll carry with me. And this is what I’ll keep until death. I’ll always remember you this way trust me on that one I’ll make it true to you and your family Sometimes I need more words, more signals to answer all my questions and fill in all the gaps and make our lives better. Then I’ll answer all the questions for me and you and everything in-between This will be my way to save you, you know, and me, and the rest of the world. I wonder if this will be my way to make sense of you, and me - and love, and so much more. I don’t remember these details about your life and I don’t remember you disintegrating before me. And before you cared about you and when it meant nothing to me. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.