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video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poems “Rhenium: the little element that could”, “Osmium when capitalism prevails”, “Iridium blankets the earth”, “Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer”, “Francium, of the feline persuasion”, “Radium’s Faint Light”, “Actinium & the next-gen for cancer”, “Protactinium, and voilà... rocks?”, “Curium’s radioactive glitter”, “Berkelium can recycle radioactivity”, “Californium’s a double-edged sword”, “Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, “Nobelium is fought for in transfermium wars”, “Nobelium: war or peace”, “Lawrencium: were we wrong?”, “Rutherfordium, blinked out of existence”, “Meitnerium: For All We Women Must Do”, “Roentgenium, too scarce to waste”, “Copernicium makes the worlds go ‘round”, “Flerovium, doubly magic?”, “Livermorium, vanishing in our grasp”, and “Tennessine is what I get...” (+ showing the images that accompany poems) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” on 11/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Touching The Moon” & “Periodic Table Poetry” book poem “Astatine” (+ showing the poem image & show images 1 & 2), her “Touching The Moon” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” book poem “Astatine’s rarity may save us from cancer” (+ showing the poem image & reading images 1 & 2), & her “Touching The Moon” & “Periodic Table Poetry” book poem “Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash” (+ showing the poem image, 3/18/13 image, 10/4/13 image, and 2/23/14 images 1 & 2) during her “Poetic License 4/6/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, video Instagram, & Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ 300 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Astatine’s rarity may
  save us from cancer

Janet Kuypers
1/15/22 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #85, Astatine (At), and isotope Astatine-211 (211At)
#janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr

You come from the decay of others,
radioactive destruction in your wake.
One of the rarest elements on earth,
you’re so unstable, but a part of you,
Astatine-211, may weakly penetrate
cancer cells. Could this rare element
have saved my mother, before cancer
took her away forever—








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