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video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her #metoo poem “Rape Education One” (also in the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”), her “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” poems “Cerium can soothe the soul” (+ showing an image for the poem), “Neodymium magnets up your nose” (+ showing an image for the poem), and “Samarium made the music play” (+ showing an image for the poem) that are also in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” and first performed during her “Poetry & Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret 3/30/22” feature, all read from the v328 12/22 cc&d issue/book “Lasting Forever”, then closing with her poem “Information Carries Weight” (which is scheduled to be the first poem in the 2023 CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Testament”) to start her “Poetic License 12/4/22 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This video was also filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Rape Education 1”, “Rape Education 2”, and “Rape Education 3” from the books “Unable To Escape It” and “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). video This is also a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling

rape education one

I sat in on a seminar
being held at a university
about acquaintance rape

when the woman behind the podium
asked if there were any other questions,
a woman raised her hand

she was a pretty woman

she asked what a woman
could do through the university
to prosecute the man

she sounded tough
she sounded professional

and the woman behind the podium
asked if this woman was raped

and she said yes

and the woman behind the podium
empathized with her,
told her she was raped
when she was thirteen

told her that she could tell this
certain department at the university
and they would bring a hearing on him

and then the woman behind the podium
asked, well, if you don’t mind my asking,
when did this happen to you

and by the tone of the woman’s voice
she was so calm so collected
I expected her to say
a few years ago

and her response was
six days ago

now, I know the healing process for rape
I’ve studied it in books
first there’s denial, then anger, fear
some of these steps last for years

and here was this woman
so calm so collected
to tough so professional
and I just knew
that one day

all of her defenses would fall
and it would all hit her
and she would fall
apart

I felt like her mother

she was my baby
and I wanted to deliver her
from the pain
but there was nothing I could do
I felt so helpless

nothing I could have taught her
would prepare her for this


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