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Watch this YouTube video read live in the show “hmmm” 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

Watch this YouTube video of the entire Janet Kuypers show “hmm” live 11/20/11 at the Café open mike in Chicago

Watch the YouTube video of this poem read live in her Pilsen feature “Games We Play” 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo (music from Francois Le Roux, the HA!man of South Africa)

See feature-length YouTube video of many poems read 3/17/12 at Café Mestizo from the live feature “Games We Play”, w/ this poem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon PS).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 3 poems 9/14/15 at the Chicago open mic Weeds, w/ “So”, Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein, & Burn It In (Canon fs200)

Beauty in the Eyes of Einstein Janet Kuypers (started 11/04/11, completed 11/15/11) I heard NASA scientists say that Einstein dismissed some of his theories even some theories we may know all too well but Einstein didn’t like some of his theories because he thought they weren’t beautiful and I wonder: what is beauty is it the geomagnetic aberrations of the Aurora Borealis dancing along the horizon at the arctic circle is it the way you look at me with those gorgeous doe eyes after we’ve been apart so long is it the scattered collisions from comet Shoemaker Levy-9 into the planet Jupiter is it what I feel when your arms are finally around me and I don’t want to open my eyes and I never want to let go is it the eternally changing whisps of volcanic trails in the Saturn moon Titan’s atmosphere is it the way that listening to the music you make fills me with such energy or is it converting matter into pure energy with just the right formula Einstein believed “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.” so am I driven to look up at the stars in the night sky to see stars from billions of years ago to fall in love every night Einstein reminds us, “We are all ruled in what we do by impulses” so is it how on impulse I move a bit closer to you so I can feel the heat from your body so close to mine we ask, what is beauty they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder so it makes me wonder