poem “Vain&38221;, a poem about the difficulty in keeping a family together when one pushes the rest of the family away, and even though you are apart it breaks your heart when you find out that your family member passed away, if only we could all do things to keep the family together, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain” and “Know Completeness” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” of the Down in the Dirt February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Founda tions” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain” and “Know Completeness” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” of the the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Founda tions” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Founda tions” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Vain”, “Know Completeness”, “Quickly, Life Can Turn”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Vanishing Psycho in the Rear Window”, “Value of π”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “Xenogeny” from the v169 “Going Off-Grid” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Founda tions” for The Café Gallery 9/22/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Vain
Janet Kuypers
5/29/19
We wanted to be close to you, you were family.
But you changed you behavior; you pushed us away
until we were so far away it was like we didn’t exist.
But the thing is, it was like you were so far gone
that it breaks our hearts now that we had to find out,
from strangers, a month after you passed away.
None of us are perfect. If only we could have worked
together, in a vain effort to truly make a difference.

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