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See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon camera)

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading this poem 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony camera)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Canon, w/ Threshold filter), including this poem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 5 of her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems, “Livermorium”, “Beryllium”, “Astatine”, “Francium”, and “Dysprosium”, live in her 2nd “After the Apocalypse” mini-feature 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See YouTube video of Kuypers reading 5 Periodic Table of Poetry” poems 1/2/13 at the Café Gallery in Chicago (from the Sony, w/ Posterize filter), including this poem

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 1/2/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus this periodic table poem< (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)./font>

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Fall Rituals” & “Periodic Table Poetry” book poem “Francium” (+ showing poem image & 1/2/13 show images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 10/6/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted online on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera and given a Hue Cycling filter; posted online on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Francium Janet Kuypers from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#087, Fr) 12/19/12 Thinking of you, I’m reminded of someone taking his mother’s guns and killing her in an elementary school, then taking out twenty children, then five more adults, before taking his own life. Remembering your destructive ways reminds me of going to a movie on opening night before someone walks in, cloaked in dark clothes setting off smoke bombs before killing anyone he could. Your metallic personality, you and your radioactive ways, you decayed anything you touched. So you wonder why I correlate you to any and all destruction, the way you’d be the instrument of death by slamming so much fuel, so much metal, so much life into the tallest building you could find, killing anything that crossed your path. And yeah, I’d correlate you with the government claiming to play nice while you helped over eighty faithful followers disintegrate in a fiery cataclysm. I’ve seen what you can do. I can’t help but make the connections. In such a short burst of time, you’ve killed seven in a Sikh temple. I’ve never seen you for long enough to think I can know what you might be like in bulk. As I’ve said, I’ve only seen you in these short bursts. But oh, what you’ve done in those short bursts. I think it’s funny how you unintentionally chose Hitler’s birthday to kill thirteen teens, injure over twenty more, on an otherwise average school day. I know, I know you’re rare, but when I see you, the world sees you, and we can’t forget. I know it’s such a little amount of you that exists at any time throughout the entirety of the Earth, and I know others have tried to create you synthetically, to try to learn from you, but those amounts have still been too small to make any difference. It’s sad, that this is the way you normally are — your instability make me think that you just can’t be real— and I know that your rampages usually last no more than twenty, maybe as long as twenty-two minutes. I’m just afraid that you are becoming more and more common in life. After all of these years, you have always been rare, but your repeated appearances in our lives scare me. I know that with you, everything falls apart so suddenly, so quickly so violently. How much longer will we cross our fingers, while we anticipate our next chance encounter?

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