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Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S) at her interview & reading |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (Sony, Posterize filter) at her interview & reading |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (S, Watercolor filter) at her interview & reading |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Fermium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Threshold filter) |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Fermium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Not Knowing”, and “Listen to Life” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Fermium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Not Knowing”, and “Listen to Life” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v209 7/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Lonely Visitor” poems “Einsteinium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds” (+ its image, which are also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), and “Fermium” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”) during her “Poetic License 7/2/23 global open mic” 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). Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense |
FermiumJanet Kuypersfrom the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#100, Fm) including the poem “Each Half is the Enemy” 8/10/13
When the bulldog ant of Australia
The head attempts to devour the tail.
battles for up to thirty minutes
in the world, because life is always #
Because everything contains that twin,
so horribly wrong. And you want to tear it apart,
everything that somehow is a part #
This even applies on a molecular level.
and atomically, we’re sixty-seven percent
“Ivy Mike” was the code name
It’s funny how we can take something
to destroy everything we know. #
And thanks to “Ivy Mike” and that
one of them was named after physicist
the first nuclear reactor. Fermi worked
football stadium bleachers. That’s because
for three years, because the school
Fermi, “the father of the atomic bomb”.
outside of Chicago was named after him.
Fermium was designed by Richard Garwin,
it seems fitting that Fermium is
bombardment of lighter elements
was initially kept secret due to the
while taking something we so need #
Because Fermium was classified
discovering an isotope if it, and wanted
Good thing Fermi’s nuclear work got
But wait, Fermium is bad, it’s radioactive,
Well, consider the two sides of any twin:
in radio therapy for cancer. And yes,
quickly. Because as I said, it’s amazing
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