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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon fs200), with her poems Entering the Lake of Fire, unless it happens to you, Open Book, electromagnetism, an edited version of the poem Everything was Alive and Dying, Death Takes Many Forms, and Under the Sea.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her 9/2/15 show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter” in her feature at Poetry At The Gallery Cabaret in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), with her poems Entering the Lake of Fire, unless it happens to you, Open Book, electromagnetism, an edited version of her poem Everything was Alive and Dying, Death Takes Many Forms, and Under the Sea.

Download poems in the free chapbook Like a Lamb to the Slaughter of the NEW poems read 9/2/15 at the Café Gallery show in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon fs200), w/ Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 4 poems 9/7/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds (Canon P.S.), with Vent, Tin, Entering the Lake of Fire, & electromagnetism.

See YouTube video 2/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “electromagnetism” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 2/11/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “electromagnetism” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” at the “Poetry Aloud” open mic at the Georgetown Public Library (filmed on a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17 of cc&d’s book “Salvaging America” poems “unless”, “Electromagnetism”, “Open Book”, “Everything is my Home”, and “Orders” in Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersinstagram

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ July 2017 Book Release Reading 7/5/17 of cc&d’s book “Salvaging America” poems “unless”, “Electromagnetism”, “Open Book”, “Everything is my Home”, and “Orders” in Half Price Books Community Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypershaiku #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “PDQ in Tin Foil (2015 edit)” from her show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate”, then her poems, “Open Book” and “Electromagnetism” from her show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “PDQ in Tin Foil (2015 edit)” from her show “Poetic Shades of Chocolate”, then her poems, “Open Book” and “Electromagnetism” from her show “Like a Lamb to the Slaughter”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Poetry Aloud” open mic 11/10/18 (video filmed live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

electromagnetism Janet Kuypers 9/2/15 I’ve studied the science, and I’ve heard a physicist explain that when two solid objects are pressed together they never actually touch. Because electrons repel, all objects remain one molecule apart.* All the molecules that make us us should always be pushing away. But wait a minute. that can’t be how it works, because the electricity I feel between us, the magnetism that draws me to you, makes me do anything but repel. And gravity can’t hold everything together, so all that can explain my attraction to you is this electromagnetism — I’m telling you, it’s a fundamental force, and these electromagnetic waves are the light waves, so I can see you, the radio waves, so I can hear and sense you. The heat I feel when I’m close to you, well, electromagnetism brought it all together. Now, when it comes to the science, know that when the Universe first started, electromagnetism is what drew protons and electrons together and that created any matter in the Universe. And all that matter we think is so strong, your arms when you dip me when we dance, your hands when you hold me tight, your fingertips when they interlock with mine and we hold each other’s hands whenever we’re walking together in stride, keep in mind that right down to our electrons, microscopically we’re always in a battle to keep ourselves together when our molecules are trying to tear us apart. But this electricity I feel between us, this magnetism that draws me to you, this electromagnetism wins the war — when my heart quickens for you, I know it’s that electric signal that causes my heart to beat for you. And when I spring forward to you, it’s electromagnetism in action. It’s funny, how I can use science so succinctly to explain why I need you so. And this is science, this isn’t theory, because String Theorists may say that were have always been bound to each other because a butterfly beat its wings in Barbados, and a sea lion saved her siblings         from predators in the Pacific, after an Antarctic ice shelf started melting. But I say it’s more fundamental than that. Right down to my heartbeat, right down to how you infiltrate my senses. Right down to this electricity between us. Right down to this magnetism we feel. Now that I’ve found you, I won’t fight the laws of nature. The only thing I will ever do is to only fight for you.     * lines from “Us, Actually Touching”

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