poem “JY asks”, a two-haiku tweet poem (two haiku poems put together into one twitter-length post) about contemplating how, if humans are only chemicals, can they actually cry and have emotions, to fit into By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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JY asks
Janet Kuypers
“two haiku” haiku, on twitter, 11/5/14

philosophers ask,
“if all we are are chemi-
cals, why do we cry?”
he thinks after a
loved one dies, and he is filled
with questions and angst

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See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her 2 haiku poem JY asks in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem JY asks in her 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) w/ HA!Man of South Africa music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon fs200), of 14 poems (INCLUDING THIS HAIKU POEM) with background music

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/14/15 show “India Stories” at the Art Colony in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of 14 poems (INCLUDING THIS HAIKU POEM) with background music

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“India Stories”,
w/ poems read to music on 3/14/15 at the Art Colony in Chicago

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem JY asks from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video (Cfs200) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem JY asks from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)

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