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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “one oh three destruction instructions: run faster” 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). #janetkuyperspoem
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “one oh three destruction instructions: run faster” 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 THIS POEM with John on electric base (Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot; all of this night venue’s reading videos is on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetry
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon fs200)
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See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).
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See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony 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 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 “Boron from the Big Bang” from her 5/10/13 Science vs. Mysticism poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and her 2019 poem “Ominous Day” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Boron from the Big Bang” from her 5/10/13 Science vs. Mysticism poetry feature and read from her v5 cc&d poetry anthology “On the Edge”, then her poem “One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster” originally from her poetry feature “Destruction Instructions” and read from her poetry performance art collection book “A Year-Long Journey”, and her 2019 poem “Ominous Day” live 2/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

one oh three
destruction instructions:
run faster

Janet Kuypers
poem based on her 1997 poem “;run faster
2/8/15

I keep doing this to myself
I keep coming back
I beg for attention

I don’t know how to stop
because
I don’t know how to be alone

so I keep giving you
one more chance to make it perfect
one more chance to rescue the damsel

but I’m not a damsel
and I’m not being rescued

and I don’t know which one of us
lit the match
and set this relationship on fire

I don’t know which one of us
turned the wheel of this semi
and set the wheels in motion
that started the 50 car pile up
and caused this fantastic car crash

I don’t know
you say it’s my nagging
    but if you weren’t so wrong all there time
    you’d never hear me complain

and you can’t yell at me
for my accomplishments
    I know I’m younger than you,
    and made more money than you,
    as an artist,
    so why can’t you win in the workforce?

And don’t yell at me
when other men are hitting on me
    that only means I’m good-looking,
    and I have more male friends anyway,
    you should really get over yourself —

I’ve always said
we’re perfect for each other

I don’t know why
you don’t get that

and you keep bringing up
all of these bad points,
and why do you keep saying
that I’m twisting
the knife in your back?

(If that knife is twisted,
it’s like my personality)*

Because at this point,
even though I hate you,
I’ll never let go —
so you’ll just have to run faster.

 

* these two lines reference a poem by Fritz Hamilton


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