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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Polluted by Plastics and Politicians” & “Safety Culture Redefined” from the upcoming 7/25 cc&d book “Smokes and Dreams” at Prost Alehouse during the 2025 Poetry Bomb on 4/27/25 (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera. Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera.#janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v359 7/25 cc&d issue/book “Smokes and Dreams” poems “Polluted by Plastics and Politicians” (+ 2025 Poetry Bomb with the 4/27/25 video still) & “Safety Culture Redefined” to start her “Poetic License 7/6/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera, on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Polluted by Plastics and Politicians Janet Kuypers 1/28-29/25 I might choose to be psycho-belligerent about recycling plastic. When driving across the U.S., I’d stop at a truck stop, end up Filling my car with plastics multiple truckers left in piles on the Curbs; I could at least drop it all off to recycle at a WalMart... Call me over the top...        I could retort with that trite line that “If you’re not a part of the solution you’re a part of the problem.” And wow, how uppity of me, acting all high and mighty. But no Matter how recycle-nazi I get, Americans only recycle ten per- Cent of all plastics because there’s no place to recycle, and with Not obvious solution, no one has the patience to solve anything. (When Chicago, decades ago, started a mass recycling program, They told us we had to buy blue plastic bags to pitch recyclables. Even the recycle-nazi won’t pay for dyed plastic bags to recycle. What a joke.) It is a joke indeed, because I think people are too Used to pre-formed plastic containers for their daily office lunches, And don’t look for microscopic recycle symbols to reuse packaging Before recycling. Just pitch it. It’s easier. Like most Americans, We’ve been overwhelmed — and then we become complacent. We have become a part of the problem. So, who’s to blame when Plastics infiltrate everything, from our food to our blood, to our Placenta. Each American consumes a credit-card-worth of plastic Daily, and sure, blame the companies for collectively pulling the Wool over our eyes that recycling is a real solution — when there’s No place to even recycle the vast majority of what we consume — But we were fed lies and we’re now stuck in a system most don’t Know how to get out of.                                             This is beginning to sound like politics In America now too, as one quote unquote “leader” for either major Party tells its people what they think we want to hear, then they do Whatever they want and see how much they can get away with Before having to cut back and act like they care again. Politics is One of the greatest races I’ve seen (other than the corporate one), But whether it be plastics or politics, they’re both something we Thought we needed, thought we couldn’t live without, all while That elusive someone pulled the wool over our eyes, told us what We wanted to hear, and then didn’t care if our choices did us in.

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