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the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook,
w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with an Edge Detection filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ October 2018 Book Release Reading 10/3/18, where she read her “The Periodic Table of Poetry” poems “Bromine”, “Iodine”, “Indium”, “Scandium”, “Xenon”, and “From Hydrogen to Nothing” from the “Lincoln Park Zoo 4/28/13 Poetry Bomb” chapbook reading in the cc&d v5 boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, in Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, with a Threshold filter).

Xenon
Janet Kuypers
from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#054, Xe)
4/27/13
I don’t care
that you’re no
Zena warrior princess,
I just can’t stand
those high-intensity
headlights of yours
at night.
You may numb me
from my pain
if I breathe you in,
but the only good
your brightness may do
is that your excitement
may add color and life
to my plasma tee vee.
But, you know,
if I love outer space,
I should like the fact
that you are the propellant
in Ion drives —
because if Xenon is the ion,
it can be shot out of a rocket
in outer space,
forcing the rocket
to move faster and faster
through the void
of outer space.
Then again,
I’m not going to outer space,
and there’s no funding
to get us humans
into outer space
right now anyway...
So I’m sorry.
you may think
you’ve got some
bright ideas,
but when I’m driving
at night,
sometimes I think
you should keep
some of your ideas
in check.

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