poem “one oh three destruction instructions: run faster”, a 2015 poem adaptation of the Janet Kuypers 1997 poem “run faster” that further delves into how someone will do anything to keep a failed relationship together (written for a February 27 2015 book release for the Paul Ryan book “Destruction Instructions”, where Janet Kuypers was asked to feature some of her poetry), By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster live 2/27/15 in her Chicago Destruction Instructions show (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster live 2/27/15 in her Chicago Destruction Instructions show (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video
2/27/15 of Janet Kuypers’s Chicago show Destruction Instructions of 5 poem WITH THIS POEMs with John on electric base (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
2/27/15 of Janet Kuypers’s Chicago show Destruction Instructions of 5 poems WITH THIS POEM with John on electric base (Canon PS)

Download this poem in the free chapbook
“Destruction Instructions”,
w/ poems read on 2/27/15 at Chicago’s Uptown Arts Center

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem one oh three destruction instructions: run faster at the Wormwood Poetry Collective in Chicago 3/10/15 (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video 7/3/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems I’m not Sick, but I’m not Well, One oh Three Destruction Instructions: Run Faster and Oh, She Was a Woman at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

one oh three
destruction instructions:
run faster
Janet Kuypers
poem based on her 1997 poem “;run faster”
2/8/15
I keep doing this to myself
I keep coming back
I beg for attention
I don’t know how to stop
because
I don’t know how to be alone
so I keep giving you
one more chance to make it perfect
one more chance to rescue the damsel
but I’m not a damsel
and I’m not being rescued
and I don’t know which one of us
lit the match
and set this relationship on fire
I don’t know which one of us
turned the wheel of this semi
and set the wheels in motion
that started the 50 car pile up
and caused this fantastic car crash
I don’t know
you say it’s my nagging
    but if you weren’t so wrong all there time
    you’d never hear me complain
and you can’t yell at me
for my accomplishments
    I know I’m younger than you,
    and made more money than you,
    as an artist,
    so why can’t you win in the workforce?
And don’t yell at me
when other men are hitting on me
    that only means I’m good-looking,
    and I have more male friends anyway,
    you should really get over yourself —
I’ve always said
we’re perfect for each other
I don’t know why
you don’t get that
and you keep bringing up
all of these bad points,
and why do you keep saying
that I’m twisting
the knife in your back?
(If that knife is twisted,
it’s like my personality)^*
Because at this point,
even though I hate you,
I’ll never let go —
so you’ll just have to run faster.

* these two lines reference a poem by Fritz Hamilton

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