poem “Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene”, a twitter-length poem that is different from her poem Plutonium, and is limited to appear within a single tweet, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uranium Flexing” (written 8/6, on the calendar day in 1945 the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Hiroshima), “Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene” (written 8/9, on the 1945 calendar day the Fat Man atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Nagasaki), & “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day; poem reading cut off in video), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uranium Flexing” (written 8/6, on the calendar day in 1945 the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Hiroshima), “Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene” (written 8/9, on the 1945 calendar day the Fat Man atomic bomb was dropped in WWII on Nagasaki), and “Just One Book” (for 8/9; Book Lovers Day), read from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” on 7/23/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Smokes a nd Dreams” & “Periodic Ta ble Poetry” book poem “Plutonium” (+ showing the “the Elements of Astronomy” 8/25/12 image & the “Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat” 2/23/14 image), her “Smokes a nd Dreams” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” book poem “Plutonium: the Fat Man on the Scene” (+ showing the 7/23/20 Virtual Austin Poetry Society image), her “Smokes a nd Dreams” & “Periodic Ta ble Poetry” book poem “Pluto, Plutonium & Death” (+ showing the “Love in the Universe”, 6/4/16 image), & her “Smokes a nd Dreams” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” book poems “Plutonium (pee-eew)” (+ showing the “Twitter Verse periodic Table Poetry” 3/30/22 video stills 1 & 2) & “Plutonium: Badder than the Fat Man” (+ showing the poem image) during her “Poetic License 7/6/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Link ed In, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera). #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Plutonium:
the Fat Man
on the Scene
Janet Kuypers
8/9/19
from the Periodic Table in Twitter,
on Facebook and Twitter
(written on the anniversary of
the 1945 calendar day
the Fat Man atomic bomb was
dropped in WWII on Nagasaki)
They had to pull out their big guns
when their Little Man wasn’t enough
So drop the Fat Man on the scene
take a chance on what damage you’ll do
They packed him with 140 pounds
of Plutonium, hoping one atom
in that Fat Man would be enough
and, let me tell you, it was

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