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Watch this YouTube video Live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video or all of the poems read live at the Cafe, in Chicago 03/10/09

Watch this YouTube video (studio session 03/16/09)

Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this poem 5/18/13 “Trying to Change Fate” in Nashville TN in the Tag Team feature reading

Watch this Youtube video of the Janet Kuypers & C Ra McGuirt “Tag Team” 1+ hour feature in Nashville 5/18/13 (which includes this poem)

Download this in a free 5/18/13 chapbook the Tag Team Reading, of poems slated for the Janet Kuypers/C Ra McGuirt book “Tag Team Poets”

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Trying to Change Fate live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Trying to Change Fate live 6/12/13 as the intro to the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Kuypers hosting the open mic 6/12/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, including her reading this and other poems & prose!

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Black & White filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Raped With Words”, “Trying to Change Fate” and “Escaping Every Cage” from her book “Let Me See You Stripped” 10/21/17 at “Recycled Reads” open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix camera; Sepia Tone filter).

Trying to Change Fate Janet Kuypers, 03/03/09 the way a weight on a stretched elastic cloth can move and distort the fabric of the cloth everything in existence can distort space in the universe i’ve been wrapping my head around this, that gravity isn’t the strong one but gravity’s a consequence of the distortion of space and time the larger the distortion of space and time the bigger effect you see in gravity so as sci-fi media talks of warp travel all they’re really talking about is producing the energy to warp space-time so you instantly arrive at the other end of the universe because with all that energy, the other end of the universe comes to you i’ve been wrapping my head around this, using dark energy to bend time and space and i keep wondering what i could do if i knew when and where to get away from where i was, get to where i need to be would i have learned my lesson and not come to you when you, the ex-gang member strangled me would i have come to you in the middle of the night called an ambulance before your heart attack keeping you alive would i instantly arrive that one fateful saturday to go swimming instead of waiting in traffic, being almost killed while stopped on the road would I come to you despite the hurricane to hold you once before you let death consume you wait, i know us, i was your daughter, but i was never close enough to you to hold you i should know better than to contemplate bending space-time trying to change fate Copyright © 2009 Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.