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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Victim” originally read in her show “Energy with Poetry and Music and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Evil is Tricky”, and “Equality Manifesto” (written on the same calendar date as the publication date of The Communist Manifesto, 4//26) live 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers singing her poem “Victim” originally read in her show “Energy with Poetry and Music and read from her poetry performance art collection book “Chapter 48 (v2)”, then her 2019 poems “Evil is Tricky”, and “Equality Manifesto” (written on the same calendar date as the publication date of The Communist Manifesto, 4//26) 3/16/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500).
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky”, “popular and useless”, and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Scars Publications 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “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
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky”, “popular and useless”, and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Scars Publications 2/22 v192 issue of Down in the Dirt, “And I Disappear” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky” and “popular and useless from the Scars Publications Down in the Dirt magazine 1-4/22 issue collection book “The Ice that Was” to close her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Evil is Tricky” and “popular and useless from the Scars Publications Down in the Dirt magazine 1-4/22 issue collection book “The Ice that Wasduring her “Poetic License global open mic 6/5/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Evil is Tricky

Janet Kuypers
2/25/19

People have fought in wars,
killed people,
had to justify it in their minds.

Women have been raped, then
told it was the way
they dressed to lure the “lust”.

Then again, young women are
sold for sex acts to
insanely rich middle-aged men...

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People don’t want to believe
life is a delusion —
but evil is a dog, that you think

you’d recognize, until, because
evil is tricky,
evil just hides in plain sight.

People live day to day, and
then think
that even though their life is

day to day only nothingness,
going through
the motions — they think that

life is generally good, and that
they’re only
missing out on the good life

because they didn’t take
the right steps
or make the right choices.

And maybe it’s only the select
few who see
that the difference between

good and evil is paper thin.
Tissue thin.
That maybe just a few can

actually see that line, that
paper-thin line,
that they dance on every day.


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