poem You Are a Force, a poem equating the laws of physics and nature to attraction to someone By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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of Kuypers reading this poem at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

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of Kuypers’ open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the entire open mike, w/ this poem (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, & piano from Gary)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Canon)

See YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this piece in the live show the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! at Chicago’s Gallery Cabaret 20121003 (Kodak)

See YouTube video
of the Janet Kuypers with the music of HA! full live show at Gallery Cabaret in Chicago 20121003 (Canon), including this piece

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ernesto”, “You Are a Force” and “One by One the Beech Trees Fell” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Sony camera).

See YouTube video from 4/15/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Ernesto”, “You Are a Force” and “One by One the Beech Trees Fell” at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Sony; Edge Detect).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Let me See You Stripped” her poems “Like I was Never There”, “Scratch the Surface”, “You are a Force”, “You Repel Me”, and “Holding Hands”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ November 2017 Book Release Reading 11/1/17, where she reads from her book “Let me See You Stripped” her poems “Like I was Never There”, “Scratch the Surface”, “You are a Force”, “You Repel Me”, and “Holding Hands”, in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)” and “You Are a Force” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)” and “You Are a Force” on the release date of her v5 cc&d boss lady poetry collection book “On the Edge”, then her poem “The State of the Nation” from her interview/journal/poetry book “In Depth” at “Recycled Reads” 8/18/18 in Austin (this video was recorded live from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

You Are a Force
Janet Kuypers
4/6/12
is your beauty, is your soul,
causing my attraction to you,
is it a force of nature?
are you like gravity
dropping me to my knees
whenever I think of you.
or are you like magnetism,
how my need’s only magnified
as I draw closer to you
giving me impetus
to increase my velocity,
to join you, to bond with you.
that’s the only way
I can explain this,
you know.
I know your momentum,
I know this special relativity,
causes this action-reaction.
you must have a power
no one else has harnessed,
to do this to me.
the electric force between us
excites me, and burns me,
and still curls me in an arc to you.
but this friction, this tension
I feel when we’re apart
snaps me with an elastic force,
reminds me that I must abide
by the laws of motion
when it comes to you,
because, as I said,
like our dynamic equilibrium,
you must be a force of nature.

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