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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive” live 2/27/15 in her Chicago Destruction Instructions show (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive” live 2/27/15 in her Chicago “Destruction Instructions” show (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoem
video See YouTube video 2/27/15 of Janet Kuypers’s Chicago show Destruction Instructions of 5 poem WITH THIS POEM, with John on electric base (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video 2/27/15 of Janet Kuypers’s Chicago show Destruction Instructions of 5 poems with John on electric base (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
the 2/27/15 Destruction Instructions chapbook
Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Destruction Instructions”,
w/ poems read on 2/27/15 at Chicago’s Uptown Arts Center
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Destruction Instructions” poems “one oh one destruction instructions: a Man calls a Woman”, “one oh two destruction instructions: Self-Destructive”, “one oh three destruction instructions: Run Faster”, “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: on Destroying a Relationship”, and “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: Use Drones to Kill”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Destruction Instructions” poems “one oh one destruction instructions: a Man calls a Woman”, “one oh two destruction instructions: Self-Destructive”, “one oh three destruction instructions: Run Faster”, “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: on Destroying a Relationship”, and “one twenty-fifteen destruction instructions: Use Drones to Kill”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (from a Panasonic Lumix T56; Posterize).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Molybdenum” from her 4/18/13 “In Homage” poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: Self-Destructive” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book
A Year-Long Journey”, and “Opens the Way” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Molybdenum” from her 4/18/13 “In Homage” poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh One Destruction Instructions: Self-Destructive” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book
A Year-Long Journey”, and “Opens the Way” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v210 8/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “At the Zoo” poems “one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive”, “Eugene’s limit”, and “Full Stop” during her “Poetic License 8/6/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, video Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

one oh two
destruction instructions:
self-destructive

Janet Kuypers
poem based on her 1997 poem “self-destructive
2/8/15

i’ve been self-destructive before
and you liked me then
should i go back
go back to those days
when it didn’t matter who i was with

because
why would it matter
unless it was you?

But I can’t do that
to myself anymore

because now it’s about time
to turn it all around

‘cause if you think for a second
we’re gonna stay content
with injuring ourselves

(when really,
it’s been so second nature to you
to hurt us over and over again,
justifying it, saying
‘that’s just the way it always is’)

Because how were we self-destructive before,
how did you like us
when we did ourselves in
and when we succumbed to you

Well, were tired of acting helpless
you haven’t begun to see
how strong we really are

Because we’ve seen how you work
and I said it’s now time
to turn it all around
because I’ll use your tricks
and make you self-destructive

and once the tables
are totally turned,
you’ll feel
how we women feel
when the cards have been
perpetually stacked against you
and you
have no power
at all.


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