poem “kinds of interference”, a poem relating the star trek crew’s inability to trying to transport people because of some kind of interference, and like how people often have “kinds of interference” in their lives that stop them from the things the want or need in life, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem kinds of interference in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her Star Trek poem kinds of interference in her 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon P.S.)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek, INCLUDING THIS POEM (this video was filmed from a fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/21/15 show Imzadi at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago, of poems relating to Star Trek, WITH THIS POEM (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Imzadi”
w/ poems read on 3/21/15
at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, including this poem.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Kinds of Interference live 6/10/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Kinds of Interference live 6/10/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “kinds of interference”, “uncuffed” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX700 camera).

See YouTube video from 3/18/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “kinds of interference”, “uncuffed” and “Years, Centuries, Eons” @ Austin’s Recycled Reads (this video was filmed from a Canon Power Shot SX60 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems
“Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Resistance is Futile” poems
“Red Matter”, and “Eugene’s Limit”, then her “Imzadi” poem “Kinds of Interference”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” at “Recycled Reads” open mic 11/4/18 (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week), from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” as a bonus reading 5/5/20 the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reads her poems “Our Excuses for Celebrating” (written on 5/5 for Cinco de Mayo), “Full Stop” and “Kinds of Interference” (highlighted for 5/4, May the fourth be with you), and “Overtake Me” (written 5/6 during National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week) from her perfect-bound ISBN# collection book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” for the “Poetic License open mic 5/5/20 bonus reading” (filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Kinds of Interference
Janet Kuypers
started 3/20/15, completed 3/21/215
Watched an episode of Star Trek recently,
where the Borg first transported
on to the bridge of the star ship Enterprise,
and Jean Luc Picard was then abducted —
transported to the cubical Borg ship.
And as soon as they realized
that Captain Picard was taken,
commander Riker talked
(through his little com badge)
to Chief O’Brien, and asked
“O’Brien, can you beam him back?”
And Miles O’Brien
responded that he can’t, that
“there’s some kind of interference.”
All O’Brien says,
this man who transports people for a living,
is that
there’s
“some kind of interference.”
Hmmm.
I wonder
if it’s the kind of interference
like when you tell a friend
about someone you’ve started dating,
and at your own party
they leave to make out with your date.
I wonder
if it’s the kind of interference
when the one your love calls you,
to tell you they’re getting on an airplane
on the other side of the planet,
but that a connecting flight
was just cancelled,
so they won’t see you soon,
and by the way,
this phone call costs
over two dollars a minute
from the other side of the world.
That’s what you get
for getting your hopes up.
I wonder
if it’s the kind of interference
like when, a week before
you’re supposed to stand up
in a wedding, your significant other
tells you they want to break up,
but... they understand
you’re a part of someone else’s wedding,
they’ll tag along,
you know,
act like your date,
to not cause waves for you.
I wonder
if it’s the kind of interference
that when you’re driving to see you parents,
that while stopped at an intersection
you see a car speeding toward your stopped car,
so you turn your car wheels
so the crash won’t kill the motorcyclist in front of you,
and what they do
drops you into a coma for weeks,
where at the hospital
they put a tub down your throat
to breathe for you.
You know,
that kind of interference.
I wonder
if it’s the kind of interference
when you’re finally off on your own,
and you feel like you can trust people,
and someone gets you drunk enough
to not fight back
when they sexually
get off on you.
And you later hear
of “rape rooms” in fraternity basements
that are rooms with floors
literally covered in dingy mattresses,
you know,
in case the girl falls down
as soon as they enter the room.
You know,
that kind of interference.
I wonder
if it’s the kind of interference
you get after you questioned your gender preference,
started relationships with a few
until one of them
from a one night stand
gave you the Human immunodeficiency virus.
After you contracted full-blown AIDS
you cocktailed your way
through the world
with anything other than liquor,
wondering how long you’d live,
wondering if you’d ever have and raise kids.
You know,
that kind of interference.
But you know,
often when you hear
them say on Star Trek
that there’s “some kind of interference,”
they continue by saying
“I don’t have a positive lock
on the away team”.
Which makes me think
of the times
when you want to find
the one you love,
and
some kind of interference
keeps you away
from your chances of finding
the one you love.

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