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video See YouTube video of Wayne Allen Jones reading this 11/02/10, live at the Café in Chicago
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “No Heat in my Heart”, “Three Minutes for Three Dollars”, “Hurt Less Then”, “Pinchy”, “Live in my Imagination”, “Opinions”, “ Somewhere Else”, “Rushed”, “Bar Poem 20100423”, “Just Let It Glide Over Me”, “Bitter Suburbs”, “Teaching Our Children”, “Be Free of You”, and “Out of the Space Program” from the the Scars Publications 2010 poetry book “She’s an Open Book” 6/5/20 as a prequel to the “Poetic License open mic 6/7/20 home edition” she hosted and shared on a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

out of the space program

Janet Kuypers
06/01/10

NASA’s spacesuits
have evolved over the years
I mean, back in the ‘60s
    even going to the moon
their suits were actually
paper thin
and by the ‘80s
there was more elasticity in joints
but spacesuits were heavier, thicker
    you know, toughen the edges
    to protect he people
now they make them
with thinner, but stronger skins
with built-in, potential injection points
you know, in case an astronaut
needs adrenalin for energy
or morphine for pain

now, since we’re an outsourcing nation
NASA looked to other companies
to help create these space suits
who can utilities their technology

who says we don’t get anything
out of the space program

well, the military offered to help out NASA
and now this ingenious
space suit technology
is being used in battle

I know NASA is a government agency
but it’s just fascinating
to see how outer space exploration
is now linked to the military

what the Hell,
I guess I should know better
I mean, the military wanted
to explode nuclear bombs
on the dark side of the moon

I’m sure it’s good to give
emergency injections for pain
to our soldiers in battle

so who says we don’t get anything
out of the space program


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