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See YouTube video of the poem jihadists and astrophysics, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem jihadists and astrophysics, read by Janet Kuypers (w/ John playing guitar) in her 4/10/15 show “Love” at Poetry’s “Love Letter” (@ Let Them Eat Chocolate) in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show “Love” (w/ John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 6 new love poems

See YouTube video of the 4/10/15 Janet Kuypers show “Love” (w/ John playing guitar) at Poetry’s “Love Letter” in Let Them Eat Chocolate in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 6 new love poems

Download these poems in the free chapbook “Love”, w/ poems read 4/10/15 at Poetry’s “Love Letter” show in Let Them Eat Chocolate (Chicago)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jihadists and Astrophysics live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Jihadists and Astrophysics live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems w/ John on guitar, eyes and jihadists and astrophysics, and then her poem Vanishing Scars at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (from a Nikon Coolpix S7000 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made any Difference”, then reading her poems “jihadists and astrophysics” and “elusive imaginary creature” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Made any Difference”, then reading her poems “jihadists and astrophysics” and “elusive imaginary creature” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads 3/18/17 (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Love” show poem “Electricity”, then her “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” show poem “Empty Chocolate Counter”, and then her “Love” show poem “Jihadists and Astrophysics”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic @ Kick Butt Coffee 11/4/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Love” show poem “Electricity”, then her “Poetic Shades of Chocolate” show poem “Empty Chocolate Counter”, and then her “Love” show poem “Jihadists and Astrophysics”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at the “Spoken and Heard” open mic @ Kick Butt Coffee 11/4/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xystus to Foundation” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Quintessential Symbol” (about the Venus de Milo statue), then her poem “Jihadists and Astrophysics”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers, while hosting the Poetry Aloud open mic 4/27/19 in Georgetown TX, reads her poems “Xystus to Foundation” (originally written about the Notre Dame) and “Quintessential Symbol” (about the Venus de Milo statue), then her poem “Jihadists and Astrophysics”, read from her 2014-2016 Chicago poetry performance art book “A Year-Long Journey”, all read to a live audience for National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

jihadists and astrophysics Janet Kuypers 4/5/15 I know gangs in Chicago shoot people on the streets. I know terrorists fly airplanes into buildings, set off bombs in basements. I know jihadists chop off the heads of anyone who doesn’t believe the way they do. # I know these high rises I adore will one day crumble and be reduced to the dust from which we came. I know the sun one day will swell to touch the only earth we know, incinerating our only home. # I know anything I say may only be a shout into a void. # But I also know that I love you, and that love transcends the killings, the destruction. I have loved you since before I was born. This is why I am so lucky that I found you. And there may be gunfire, there may be explosions, buildings may crumble. Our earth’s oceans won’t save us from our red giant sun — but what I have for you, this love I have for you, this love transcends all. It has existed, it does exist, it will always exist. You may believe there are too many things we need to save ourselves from, but we have one constant we cannot forget. My love for you has existed, it does exist, and it will always exist. My love for you will outlast the beheadings, rise above the explosions, transcend the destruction. My love for you transcends the jihadists. It transcends astrophysics. It transcends the earth, the stars, it transcends the elements that make you and I, that make the universe itself. My love for you will always transcend.

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