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Watch YouTube video of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (S)

Watch YouTube video of this Periodic Table of Poetry poem read by Kuypers in her Science vs. Mysticism feature, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (C)

See this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (video from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

See this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ Periodic Table of Poetry series back and forth with poems by Buddha309 in Science vs. Mysticism, live in Chicago 5/10/13 at Poetry Love Letters (video from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Download this poem in the free PDF file Science vs. Mysticism chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Gold”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Vanadium” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Gold”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Vanadium” from the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Nitrogen Needs”, “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Down in the Dirt November 2021 v189 issue/paperback book “A Door is A Door is A Door” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Nitrogen Needs”, “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Down in the Dirt November 2021 v189 issue/paperback book “A Door is A Door is A Door” 11/3/21 at the performance art pavilion at the French Market in New Orleans, LA on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book anthology “The World Outside”, then her poems “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Original Sin and Unholy Ways” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book anthology “The World Outside”, then her poems “Nitrogen”, “Nitrogen in my veins”, and “Scandium, Held Tightly” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Stardust in Hand” 4/6/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Lava Lamp filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading

Nitrogen in my veins Janet Kuypers bonus poem from the Periodic Table of Poetry series (#007, N) (stemming from Fingers Black, written 6/5/10) 3/29/13 You told me nothing. You just left me. Now wait a minute, I’m a journalist, so all I could do was turn my fingers black, scouring the newspapers, searching for any news about what happened with us. The ink from that paper crept around my fingernails, trying to work it’s way under my skin. I could feel that darkened soybean oil, that petroleum oil, creeping it’s way into me. I could feel that Nitrogen from that petroleum oil piggy-backing on that hydrogen, carbon, oxygen. I could feel that Nitrogen butting that sulfur out of the way, pushing it’s way past the only trace amounts of nickel and iron. (Those trace elements couldn’t stand a chance against the power of that Nitrogen, that power to spill the news out to the world.) I ran my hands through those newspaper pages. I felt that ink seep under my skin, and I felt the surge of that Nitrogen in my veins. I know they use liquid Nitrogen to fuel cars, to make them go at stellar speeds... And I know people take Nitrogen to give their bodies added strength, so, journalist or not, maybe this is exactly what I need. I’ll scour those pages, I’ll let that Nitrogen seep into my veins, as I look for any way to get you back. Besides, all this ink’s in me now. This Nitrogen has given me the impetus for all I’ve got to say.

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