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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem Full Stop in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek, INCLUDING THIS POEM (this video was filmed from a fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek, WITH THIS POEM (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poem in the free chapbook “Imzadi”, w/ poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, including this poem.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as a bonus reading 5/5/20 the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week) from her perfect-bound ISBN# collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for the “Poetic License open mic 5/5/20 bonus reading” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v210 8/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “At the Zoo” poems “one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive”, “Eugene’s limit”, and “Full Stop” during her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Full Stop Janet Kuypers 3/16/15 When you’re driving down the expressway, you see rush hour traffic slowing the lanes down, but you look up and the car in front of you is at a full stop, and a lot closer than you realized. So you slam on the brakes as hard as you can, you feel your car shuddering and screeching ‘til you feel your car rock back from the brakes once you’ve come to a full stop, just in time. In our short time here on planet Earth, we all understand the concept of a “full stop.” In the U.K., a full stop is another term for a period, to bring a sentence to a full stop... But in Star Trek, Captain Kirk, Jean Luc Picard, or even Commander Riker, have all been known to tell their crew to take the Enterprise to a “full stop.” But I have to ask: in relation to what? In relation to the stellar objects nearby? Because from what I’ve heard, the universe doesn’t sit still, but that everything’s expanding away from everything else. Are we at a full stop right now, on Earth, when the planet spins, and orbits the Sun, and our solar system is at the edge of an arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, spinning like mad. And think of it — our own galaxy is speeding away from everything else out there. So what is full stop, I’d have to ask. A full stop, in reference to what? Because without a reference point, we’re all just moving, faster than we can imagine. We’ll never stop. But I mean, it feels like we’re still, so I guess it’s all relative. If you’re in an unmoving line at a grocery store, or if you’ve turned off the engines of the Enterprise, you can at least say that suddenly, everything feels like a full stop.

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