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Download the free chapbook with this poem of the 2012 Poetry Bomb, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this Youtube video of Kuypers reading ALL Periodic Table of Poetry poems (including this poem) at the Chicago “L” train for the 2012 Poetry Bomb 4/29/12

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live in Chicao at “Poetry Love Letters” 11/9/12 (Sony)

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live in Chicao at “Poetry Love Letters” 11/9/12 (phone camera)

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publications 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publications Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Hydrogen Janet Kuypers from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series 4/17/12 when I thought of our relationship, when I thought of your relationship to me, I thought of a molecule of Hydrogen: how you were afraid of me, but also how you were so obsessed with me... and although you always kept your distance, you were always revolving around me. and when we finally eventually fused together, you were like a Hydrogen bomb: forcing me to push away everyone I loved, forcing me to hurt everyone close to me. and that is when I snapped and lost it, because I couldn’t let you use me like this. I couldn’t let you cause so much destruction. I couldn’t let everything I valued be destroyed. I know it was a basic attraction with us, but although you might not have liked it, I think it was better when you just kept your distance.

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