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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Neodymium” originally read in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Ends of the Earth”, and “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Neodymium” originally read in her Nashville “Tag Team Reading and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Ends of the Earth”, and “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Old Stomping Grounds” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “dimensional shift” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Old Stomping Grounds” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “dimensional shift” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “Keeps Repeating”, “Check your Beliefs at the Door”, “Quantum of Evidence”, and “Language” from the “You Won’t See Me” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 cc&d issue collection book “What Lies on the Other Side” (released 4/15/21), read 4/7/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Escaping Rapeugees”, “Objectifiable 2021”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women”, “from In the Air”, “Opened the Door for All”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Extension of “Him””, “Keep Looking Happy”, “Vacuum of Space”, “Voluptuous, and Intelligent Too”, “Unmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere”, “the Measuring Scale”, and “Oh, She Was a Woman” from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Hue Cycling filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature#janetkuypersfeminism #shatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuypersequalityforwomen #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poetry from the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” during the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Killing, Loving,
 and the Power of Women

Janet Kuypers
1/6/19

You can’t help but love the look
of the Praying Mantis; the unique way it moves
is utterly fascinating to the eye.

But I had no idea that one of the
reasons I could fall in love with a Praying Mantis
was precisely because the woman

kills her mate during, or just after
they’ve finished their mating business. Because
really, what do you need him

around for anyway, after you got
yours? And the beauty of this kind of conquest
is that it happens across species,

and it happens from insects to
animals too. Some Black Widow Spiders are known
to kill their post-coital mates.

Female spiders even have larger
venom sacks. And the things is, female bees and wasps
have the stingers — not the males.

Yeah, you heard me right, those
male worker drone bees don’t even have stingers.
And one female bee is chosen

when young to be queen, then is
raised by male bees until she rules over them all.
Female honey bees call the shots

in their caste system matriarchy,
in a female-centered hive, where the males only serve
for sexual reproduction. Also,

male insects and animals are
brightly colored to stand out to be better looking —
you know, to attract the females...

while the females stay at home
and take care of what’s theirs. Even female octopi
strangle their male mates

when the deed is done. And the
female lion does the majority of hunting for its pride,
sometimes not even sharing their food.

Female Bonobos (chimpanzees)
are at the top of their group’s social pyramid, the top
in their matriarchal society.

And get this one: in many societies
of the anglerfish, the male, which is smaller, literally
attaches himself to a woman,

and get this, starts to atrophy
until she is ready to use him for her reproductive needs.
If a male anglerfish doesn’t

find a female, he will literally die.

So I don’t know how it got so
messed up with us humans, we women have always been
the ones with the power, and now

we fight an uphill battle
because we’ve been thought of as less than human.
Tell that to Nefertiti or Pharaoh

Cleopatra is all I can think,
because somewhere along the line, men decided
to take over the world

while we only gave them a home,
gave them family and offspring to raise and flourish —
in the male’s name, no less —

and what’s our thanks?
For stopping killing you men, you’ve taken our humanity,
and for millennia we fight

for any rights back.
And sorry, but I don’t know who made this deal,
but I didn’t agree to it,

and I want my money back.


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