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lava... at a rolling boil

no drug or alcohol evidence
was found when 24 year old
Philip Quinn lost his life
late last November.
Reporters thought drugs
or alcohol were necessary,
in order to let Philip Quinn
believe his actions were rational.
because Philip Quinn placed
a lava lamp on his kitchen burner

and turned up the heat

he was not aware that a lava lamp,
when place over an open flame
and heated,
exploded,
and a piece
of the glass -
the deadly shrapnel -
was found lodged through
Philip Quinn’s heart


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Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers.
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Listen mp3 file to the DMJ Art Connection,
off the CD Indian Flux
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “UnreadBeach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her second set of poetry at her “UnreadBeach Poets feature 7/26/15 in Chicago (video filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera), w/ the poems lava (lamp) at a rolling boil, low-end lipo, Octopi Target McDonald’s, organic sex toy, Basic Investment Question, Pinchy, Opening Our Own Doors, Saving Yourself, Protect Ourselves from Ourselves, Uneven Ground Beneath my Feet, and Evaluation.


the 2007 book Tick Tock, front cover the CD Indian Flux