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video See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Up for the Challenge”, “Lost Cross”, “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Underground History”, and “Extension of “Him”” from the cc&d 11/20 v303 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Up for the Challenge”, “Lost Cross”, “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Underground History”, and “Extension of “Him”” from the cc&d 11/20 v303 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” live 11/4/20 in honor of “Community Poetry” (video filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quenched Bloodlust(for 11/20, on and for the date the Nuremberg trials began), “Extension of “Him”(written 11/21, on and for the 1929 birthday of feminist writer Marilyn French), and “People Forget Politics(written 11/22, on and for the 1963 day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 11/17/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Extension of “Him””, and “People Forget Politics” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 11/17/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Up for the Challenge”, “Eleven Days”, “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Only Certain People”, and “Extension of “Him”” from the part 3 of the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Up for the Challenge”, “Eleven Days”, “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Only Certain People”, and “Extension of “Him”” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

Quenched Bloodlust

Janet Kuypers
11/20/19, on the 1945 day
the Nuremberg trials began

We have to treat this with respect.
After the atrocities we have witnessed,
after the slaughter of innocent millions,
after they treated the countless masses
as less than human, we must act humane.

We know our bloodlust for revenge
is not easily quenched, but when we see
what these megalomaniacal morons did,
the only way we can justify our hatred
is to spell out why they are so wrong.

“I was only flowing orders”, they cry,
they chant, like they are preparing
for that mob mentality, because it seems
whenever people succumb to a mob,
they do whatever they want and believe

that they are not to blame. They’re
just following orders, but ask then
point blank, and they’ll swear they’re
blameless. How can you blame someone
swelled with emotion when swept in a furor?

So let us bring the details to their attention.
Let’s spell everything out for them. And
let’s show them their signatures on forms
condoning this mass genocide. They can
keep sunglasses on, but they have to see

what they have done. In time, maybe
they will realize the error of their ways —
or maybe they will prefer killing themselves
to giving us our chance to fill our own
blood lust, until we can let our hatred die.


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