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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Each Half is the Enemy live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Each Half is the Enemy live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (S)

See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Each Half is the Enemy live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (C)

See YouTube video of Eric Esden reading the Janet Kuypers poem Each Half is the Enemy live 9/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (posterize filter)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Each Half is the Enemy in Nashville 10/26/13 in her Nashville Halloween feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table” poems (and two original songs) live in her Chicago 10/20/13 feature Nashville Halloween feature, including this writing

Download this free chapbook of the Nashville Halloween feature, w/ Tag Team and Periodic Table poems in this show, including this poem.

See YouTube video 6/26/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems, Vent, Each Half is the Enemy, and her Periodic Table poem Vanadium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken & Heard (w/ a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 6/26/16 of Janet Kuypers’ 3 poems, Vent, Each Half is the Enemy, and her Periodic Table poem Vanadium at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry: Spoken & Heard (filmed with a Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)..

See YouTube video from 12/16/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “He Makes me Think About These Things”, “Escape my Brain Somehow”, “Keeps Pounding Against Walls”, “Each Half is the Enemy”, “from Orpheus to Nuking the Moon”, and “Pleiades” (cut off) from her book “Give Me the News” @ the AIPF booth during the Awesmic City Expo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

Each Half is the Enemy Janet Kuypers 7/29/13 When the bulldog ant of Australia is cut in half, the halves see each other as enemies. The head attempts to devour the tail. And the tail, in an effort to defend itself, battles for up to thirty minutes to sting the head. And this battle happens everywhere in the world, because it’s always that the two halves of the whole will religiously remain at odds. # When born at the cusp of Gemini, you have a twin, and your other half is a Cancer. And if you weren’t born under that sign, trust me. Look for it. This applies to you too. Because sometimes you want to tear it apart, that other half, you despise everything about it — everything that somehow is a part of you. It’s everything you don’t want to admit — because life will remain a battle, as you continually struggle against everything you don’t want to believe.

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