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Order this iTunes track from the poetry music CD the Elements ...Or order the entire CD set from iTunes:

Watch this YouTube video or listen from iTunes: live 10/21/03 in her show the Other Side at theCaf#233; in Chicago

Or watch the complete video of The Other Side live, including this poem in Chicago 10/21/03 (37:01)

edit this poem in wandering words... rearrange the words... or make a new poem either in Flash or in Java (Windows only)!

Listen to two different versions of this piece as a CD recording on the Entropy Project

Watch this YouTube video TAKE 1, read by C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) Nashville 12/20/08

Watch this YouTube video TAKE 2, read by C Ra McGuirt (Penny Dreadful Press) Nashville 12/20/08

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Too Much Light live 5/8/13 at the Caf#233; Gallery in Chicago (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading the poem Too Much Light live 5/8/13 at the Caf#233; Gallery in Chicago (Sony)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers hosting the open mic 5/8/13 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Caf#233; Gallery in Chicago, plus the Charlie Newman feature

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Too Much Light” (for the audio CD release of her book “Contents Under Pressure”), “This is What it Means”, (for the audio CD release of her book “Close Cover Before Striking”), and “Only Half the Story” 7/2/17 @ “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Lumix camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Too Much Light” (for the audio CD release of her book “Contents Under Pressure”), “This is What it Means”, (for the audio CD release of her book “Close Cover Before Striking”), and “Only Half the Story” 7/2/17 @ “Kick Butt Poetry” in Austin (this video was filmed from a Sony camera).

too much light too much light makes the baby go blind and too much light makes the moth rush into the flame and die in a glorious blaze of glory and I have seen the light and I have seen it what is my choice: burn in the flame to burst quickly to die young or to slowly slip away to die slowly day by day to let people in darkness pull me in inch by inch until the light kills me Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.