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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems
Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (video recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems
Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (video recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” for Victims of Violence Wholly/Holy Day on April 4th, “Red Matter” for First Contact Day on April 5th, verse II ‘the Martyr’ of “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own, part II: “the martyr”” for the day Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 5th, and “Quote Unquote Holiday for us Beer Drinkers” for National Beer day on April 7th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Victims of Violence for Lending a Hand” for Victims of Violence Wholly/Holy Day on April 4th, “Red Matter” for First Contact Day on April 5th, verse II ‘the Martyr’ of “I Never Took a Life Until I Took My Own, part II: “the martyr”” for the day Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 5th, and “Quote Unquote Holiday for us Beer Drinkers” for National Beer day on April 7th, April event poems read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” during her “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Red Matter

Janet Kuypers
1/16/15

Try to understand everything in the Universe.
I dare you.

Even the science geeks
at every high—tech lab in the world

can’t explain how matter can function
the way it does in our Universe.

They only way they can explain it all
is by making up some invisible

“stuff”

and only guess it’s properties
be seeing how it affects everything around it.

Sounds crazy, no?
Well, you might be right

but at some point in the game,
when you’ve done all the experiments

you can think of,
it’s then time to start coming up with theories.

Like the Big Bang Theory.
When you look for more evidence

to support your theory
(which they’ve done),

the Big Bang Theory
starts to seem less and less like a theory.

Well, it has to be a theory,
no one was there when the Universe started,

but as those science geeks
collect more and more evidence,

we start thinking of the Big Bang Theory
as probably the closest thing to the truth.

Well, those scientists have been
at it again, they plot stars, galaxies

and they see everything
speeding away. and they think,

wait a minute, even though gravity
is weak, our Universe shouldn’t be

flying apart. It makes no sense.
So the only thing they can come up with

as a theory, to explain it, is that there’s
some invisible matter driving everything apart.

And one scientist happened to say
the words “Dark Matter”

and, although the phrase makes
no sense, it stuck.

A bunch of things
we can’t explain,

lets lump it into this elusive
Dark Matter, and Dark Energy.

###

But what if this elusive darkness
yielded something so red—

fiery—hot

that instead of making
our Universe fall apart,

it crammed all that energy
into a black hole?

Let’s come up with a term,
let’s call this hot stuff “Red Matter”;

ignite the stuff
and watch it turn whatever it touches

into a black hole?
I mean, one drop of the stuff

could be enough to collapse a star,
or consume planets.

You know, this might be the cool part
of being a scientist,

when you’ve learned all you can
with what technology you have

you come up with theories and look
for evidence to support the fantastic.

Who knows, maybe this stuff was created
by a species we’ve never found,

like, an intelligent Vulcan race
who relied on logic to accomplish so much.

Maybe it was created
with a rare isotope of Lithium —

let’s call it “Decalithium” —
and this Red Matter was first used

to collapse a star that was about to go
supernova, into a quantum singularity,

or a black hole.

You see, anything is possible
when it comes to theories,

so, be like that Vulcan mind you imagine —
logically look for solutions

and you’ll be surprised
at what you can discover.

 

Red Matter Red Matter Red Matter
Red Matter Red Matter


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