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of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including tihs poem
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of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 12/4/12 at Waiting4the Bus at Jaks Tap
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of Janet Kuypers reading this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Copper read live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon
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of Janet Kuypers reading her poems White Knuckled and her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Copper read live in Chicago 6/10/13 at the Sulzer Library in Poetry Saloon at Noon
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See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper in the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).
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See YouTube video 7/8/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 “Periodic Table of Poetry” poems Iron in my Eyes and Copper i../n the 3rd round at the Austin installment (at her house) of the Poetry Plus open mic 7/8/16 (this video was filmed w/ a Sony camera).
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Copper in your Mouth” and “Copper” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Copper in your Mouth” and her Periodic Table poem “Copper” from the Down in the Dirt 6/22 v195 issue/book “Bridge” on 6/1/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper in your Mouth” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) from section 2 of the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper in your Mouth” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), her Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” poem “Copper” (that also appears in the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Periodic Table Poetry”) from section 2 of the from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/22 issue collection book “The Final Frontier” on 10/5/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Copper

Janet Kuypers
from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series
5/8/12

The metallic taste in your mouth
isn’t just copper.
I know you think you know the taste,
but lick a coin,
since most U.S. coins are usually three fourths
that element...
But that taste is probably from your blood.
Metal elements
like copper, iron, those are the
elements
coursing through your bloodstream.
They give you
that “copper” taste in your mouth.
Learn the difference.

It’s funny that you think copper,
since it’s
the base of the “Copper Age”, where it
existed
over ten thousand years ago in the
Middle East,
later throughout Asia, also Africa. And
the element
is so commonly used on Earth,
conducting both
heat and electricity, used in construction.

Do you feel
any of that heat, after that electric
charge,
do you feel it in the construct
of your body
from that copper taste in your mouth now?
I mean, copper
is a trace element in plants and animals,
and the human
body even contains one milligram of
copper per pound.

But you know, the thing is, what’s
really funny,
if you want to be technical about it
and break it down,
is that the copper jacketed bullet
was not invented
until Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Rubin
of the Swiss Army
used it in eighteen sixty two, and the first
Google search
for “copper jacket bullet” actually produced
the link to
“Making Your Own Copper Jacketed Bullets”.
Because you see,
even though there is copper in blood,
I made
my own copper jacket bullets, so nobody
could trace
the bullet that was just shot through your
mouth
and is now lodged precariously close
to the base
of your skull. Actually, it’s really funny,
if you think
about it, tasting copper in your mouth.


“Your writing is SO good that I taste the copper clad bullet.....and I feel the gun in my throat.....I understand.”

—David Michael Jackson 6/19//12





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