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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Victory Day, After Midnight” (written on Victory Day), live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 2019 poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Understanding Terrorism’s Interior”, and “Victory Day, After Midnight” (written on Victory Day), live 5/18/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Seasons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 5/20 book “Seasons” poems “Magnesium Burn”, “unsung”, “guard”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Victory Day, After Midnight” on the day victory was officially declared in World War Two (on May 8th), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/8/20 as a “Poetic Licensehome edition bonus reading through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Victory Day, After Midnight” on the day victory was officially declared in World War Two (on May 8th), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” 5/8/20 as a “Poetic Licensehome edition bonus reading (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Magnesium Burn”, “Overtake Me”, “Victory Day, after Midnight”, “Volumes in Flames while the Spirit Lives”, “Vase of Tulips”, “Killing Women for Healing”, and “Unity for Humanity” from the v171Seasons” section of the Down in the Dirt 5-8 2020 collection book “Outside the Box” live 8/5/20 (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Victory Day, after Midnight

Janet Kuypers
5/9/19 (written on Victory Day)

After years of this toxic relationship with you,
and you making me believe you were my savior...

I wanted to think it could work out between us,
but what seemed so good at first was only an

illusion.

I should have known to not trust you — we
all should have known it — but as time wore on

those who would argue against you would
somehow be silenced, quickly, coldly, violently and

brutally.

You said you wanted peace, but you only
offered death, destruction and domination.

You never said the words, at least not that I heard,
but you sanctioned mass genocide as your final

solution.

Was this supposed to be how you would make
things work out for us? You pulled the wool

over my eyes, as I think you did with everyone else.
I had to be free for you, to feel an ounce of my own

freedom.

And the more others saw your claims of wanting peace
and prosperity as only the megalomaniacal rantings

of mad man trying to blindside the world into
submission, the more I realized that I didn’t have to

fight alone.

And if that means we have to take you down
the way you tried to take me down, or even

tried to take the world down, then so be it. Since you
don’t fight fair, we’ll pull out all of our tricks from

up our sleeves

to make sure your wrath remains nothing more
than your idle imagination. Any maybe only later

will we realize how essential it was to put you down
like the animals you assumed other beings to be,

but for now,

now that it’s after midnight, let us celebrate that
you cannot hurt anyone else anymore, and maybe,

just maybe, the world may be a better place for it. So
now that I’m over how evil you once were, just let me

celebrate.


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