poem “So”, a poem about being alone with coffee in a diner and someone dying, so the coffee and the bailey7#8217;s is like a mushroom cloud in the contained bomb of a coffee cup, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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live 09/18/10 at Vittorio Carli’s Pilsen open mic at Cafe Mestizo

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa’s Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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2:22, 11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, in Sexism and other stories

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa’s “Visual Nonsense” 10/20/011/06/10 with this poem at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

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read from cc&d magazine from Scars Publications, in the 12/10 v215 issue, which was also released as the 6" x 9" ISBN# book Entering the Ice Age, live 12/07/10, live at the Café in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

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of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Nikon CoolPix S7000).

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of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems, Left with a Hole, “So”, & Scratch the Surface from her book let me see you Stripped, 1/17/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (Canon Power Shot Video).

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

See YouTube video from 5/27/16 (Sony) of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems David, Drinking Coffee and So, and then John came on stage and read her poem one by one, the beech trees fell as well as a cc&d poem at Georgetown’s Poetry Plus open mic.

“So”
Janet Kuypers
7/19/10
so the hotel I was in
didn’t have a continental breakfast
so i looked for a diner
for a bagel for breakfast
so i pulled into some dive
and i just sat there
i kept my head down
i don’t like looking at strangers
so i kept my head down
looking at my writings
and i didn’t even notice
my head was buried in my words
but the lady walked over
and dropped the bomb
of liquid into the coffee cup
into my upturned glass
i watched this black mass
sloshing around, contained but violent
as she walked away
i don’t like coffee, you see
and i could have stopped her
said no thanks
but this was my fault
as much as it was hers
so there i was
staring at this coffee
that i don’t even like
so i’ve got this bailey’s flask in my pocket
i guess that tells you something about me
but
if i’m going to have coffee
i’ll sweeten it with anything
so my eyes dart right, then left
then right again
make sure no one’s watching me
so i open the flask
under the table
then
slowly drizzle in the creme
i watch it form a mushroom cloud
from within that contained bomb
i try to remember where i am
where i’ve been
i didn’t know
that on the other side of the country
you just died
i just looked at my coffee
that i don’t even like
and wondered if i should drink

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