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Eat Me Alive Janet Kuypers 01/14/11 I had a dream I woke up in a sewer my clothes were wet from the filthy water it felt like something was pulling me down into the filth as I worked harder and harder to just stand and I thought how did I get here? who put me here? how on earth can I get out of here? who drove me to this point? I felt the slimy, filthy walls of this coffin-like cave as I was trying to find a ledge for support trying to find any way out the noise from people walking above ground was muffled when I heard the rats coming along with the water from down the tunnel I turned in the darkness to run until I tried to take a turn and was wedged in the concrete slabs I was stick in the sewer and the rats would eat me alive Copyright © 2011 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.

Watch the YouTube video of this in a live performance in Chicago of the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

Watch the YouTube video of the eye cam recording of this in the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature, live 07/03/11 at “Beach Poets”

See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 07/03/11 at Beach Poets from the live feature “a Very Goth Beach Party”

See feature-length YouTube video of the eye-cam of the entire show at Beach Poets 07/03/11 from the “a Very Goth Beach Party” feature

Download the chapbook with this writing in a Very Goth Beach Chapbook