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Scandium Janet Kuypers from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#021, Sc) 4/27/13 You have been so rare to me. I’ve wanted to know you, I’ve wanted to see you, but you’re more common in the sun than you are right here, and the only way you’re made is in the explosion of supernovae. The scant amounts of you the entire world knew were once used in Russia, prepping for cold war battle. And you may be strong, you may give us strength, but your more violent strengths come from your creation, in a burst of radiation that outshines the galaxy. I know you’re more common in our sun, but the energy in a supernova’s explosion equals all of the energy our sun ever releases. That’s where you come from. And that’s why I’m drawn to you. That’s why I want to know you. Besides, even though we beat the USSR, we’ll hedge our bets to understand you for any strengths we can get.

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Kodak)

Watch this Youtube video of this poem read live outdoors at the Lincoln Park Zoo for the 2013 Poetry Bomb 4/28/13 (Samsung)

See the Samsung video upside-down, all raw video currently posted at facebook, posted immediately after poetry was read during the 2013 Poetry Bomb

Download this in a free 7/28/13 chapbook the Lincoln Park Zoo chapbook, w/ the Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Scandium live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Periodic Table of Poetry” poem Scandium live 7/17/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (film age older filter)

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