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Download the free chapbook with this poem titled  Count Me In, with the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

Watch this YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Canon) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video of this “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem read live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading

Watch this YouTube video 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 this poem

Watch this YouTube video of poems read from Janet Kuypers’ “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, live in Chicago 11/17/12 (Sony) at Blue Bettie’s Poetry Reading, including this poem

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table of Poetry poem Krypton, live in Chicago 7/24/13 at the Café Gallery poetry open mic

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v334 6/23 cc&d 30-year anniversary issue/book “From a Devil to an Angel” poems “Ultimately, the goddamn particle” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”), “Krypton” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Krypton, Messed With” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) to start her “Poetic License 6/4/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Enjoy this Facebook live video stream from the open mic that was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Krypton Janet Kuypers from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series 7/12/12 So, riddle me this, Batman... (Wait a minute. That’s the wrong superhero reference. Let me start over again...) Hi there. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this one, maybe you can help me out. Now, I don’t know a ton about superhero mythology, but Superman — he’s from the planet Krypton, right? And from what I’d infer, Krypton would have a lot of Kryptonite — Kryptonite comes from Krypton, right? So if Superman is from Krypton, why would Kryptonite be his weakness? I mean, that’s like saying the planet Earth has Oxygen, but humans have an adverse reaction to it. I don’t get it. Okay, okay, i’m sure Kryptonite is the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman’s home, but really, if they’ll name this bad-for-residents thing a version of the planet’s name, it really makes you wonder why. And when it comes to this planet, Krypton is colorless, odorless, tasteless... and our own air, the stuff we breathe, even contains fractional amounts of Krypton. And if on Superman’s home planet it was the radioactive ore of an element, I guess it makes sense that here on earth Krypton is used for fluorescent lamps, or even in high-powered gas lasers. But the one thing I thought was cool was that Krypton is also used in small photograph flashes, and in high-speed photography (you know, for a brilliant white light source - good for the photo minor who even had the license place “J PHOTO 1” for her first car)... And if I so got into the brilliant white light Krypton creates in flashes, I also then thought it was excellent-cool that the different colors in neon signs are often all Krypton, too... So whether or not Krypton is where Superman came from, all I can say is that Krypton has a certain brilliance right here on earth too.

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