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Watch this YouTube video read live at the Cafe 07/08/08

See the video of Now You’re Nothing To Me & Dreams 09/07/07 live 07/08/08 (6:48) This film is from the Internet Archive

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Now You’re Nothing to Me” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

Watch this Youtube video of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Get this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her 2 poems Now You’re Nothing To Me and Under the Sea 9/11/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her 2 poems Now You’re Nothing To Me and Under the Sea 9/11/16 at the Austin music open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed with a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What the Hell is she Complaining About”, “Now You’re Nothing To Me”, and “Tribal Scream” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 12/14/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “What the Hell is she Complaining About”, “Now You’re Nothing To Me”, and “Tribal Scream” from her book “Let me See You Stripped” @ “the Hole in the Wall” in Austin for AIPF’s pre-party reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Now You’re Nothing To Me started 05/12/08, edited 05/13/08 and 05/14/08 love is like tap water free flowing remember when you were little, just put a glass under the faucet quench your thirst wait a minute, it’s not like that water isn’t free you even have to pay for the water in your own home and it’s not even clean what you’re getting is dirty and you still have to pay for it # you know, they say us humans are like seventy-five percent water and when I think of you and all the time we were together well, if you’re seventy-five percent water I have to remember that it wasn’t pure and clean and clear and if this is love, and this was you it wasn’t free I’m still paying for it # when I now think of you the fact that you made me feel like nothing and when I think of what you now mean to me when I think of what you’re made of I have to remember we’re all made of atoms protons and neutrons wound tightly together in the nucleus             apparently infinitely small surrounded             at a comparatively vast distance by occasional tiny electrons spinning around keeping their distance             almost like fluff in a way, you’re like that electron, you know Spinning around but keeping your distance but when I think of you I have to remember that you’re made of those atoms with really tiny cores and those atoms are so filled with space that you’re mostly made of nothing when I think of you this is what I have to remind myself when I think of the nothingness you made me feel and the fact that you now mean nothing to me this is how I have to think of you Copyright © 2008 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.