poem You Repel Me, a poem John edited By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers, where he changed the physics nature of her poem ̶-;You Are a Force” to mean, in relations, you find someone repulsive

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of Kuypers reading this poem (editing of her poem You are a Force, to give it the opposite effect) at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery (w/ the HA!man of South Africa music)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the entire open mike, w/ this poem (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, & piano from Gary)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Let me See You Stripped” her poems “Like I was Never There”, “Scratch the Surface”, “You are a Force”, “You Repel Me”, and “Holding Hands”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Let me See You Stripped” her poems “Like I was Never There”, “Scratch the Surface”, “You are a Force”, “You Repel Me”, and “Holding Hands”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

You Repel Me (find you repulsive)
Janet Kuypers poem,
Edited by John Yotko
to create the opposite effect
4/6/12
Is your anger, is your soul,
causing me to shake near you,
is it a force of nature?
Are you like gravity
forcing me to my knees
crushing me under a heavy load?
Or are you like magnetism,
half the people you meet are drawn to you
while, like me, the other half find you repulsive
giving me the impetus
to increase my velocity
to run, to flee from you
that’s the only way
I can explain this
you know
I know your momentum,
I know this special relativity,
causes me to break down.
you must have a power
no one else has harnessed,
to do this to me.
You are like electricity
every time you touch me
I feel pain, your touch burns my skin
but this friction, this tension
I feel when we’re together
tears me apart like a bomb
reminds me that I must abide
by the laws of physics
when it comes to you
because, as I said,
you are dark energy tearing us apart
at an ever increasing rate,
you must be a force of nature.

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