Angela's Snippet Factory

[Angela]

01. Shucking Oysters
02. Corn Liquor
03. Finale
04. Not Alice
05. Love Spell
06. Doodle
07. kettle
08. Wildflowers
09. Disgusted
10. for Steve
11. Tuna salad
12. Hedge Fund
13. Fantasy
14. Experiment No. 14: Sealed Terrarium Recipe
15. Death Wishes
16. Liberation
17. Gretel- After the Witch
18. For PRN
19. paisley
20. Submission
21. The storm that I caused
22. Yankee in a Southern Diner
23. Still Life with Brando
24. Sex Play
25. Community Service
26. Birthday Cake Blues
27. Birthday Cake Blues Redux
28. I don't know how to masturbate
29. The map of his Neverland
30. What land is this?

[Janet]

Ok stop, you're making the rest of us look bad. I LOVE snippets.

[Dani B]

n. snipit. Lives under fraggle rock. Super adorable fuzzy thing. Primary source of food is poems. Feed your snipit well this April. HaNaPoWriMo!

[Featherless Biped]

Looking forward to seeing the snippets come out of the snippet extruder!

[merelynn]

Happy NaPoMo!

[Angela]

Thank you for the welcome, you guys! (I LOVE Fraggles, Dani!)

01) Shucking Oysters

Casanova swore by oysters
for breakfast. They were his Spanish Fly.
I consider the mound on the paper
covered table and bat my eyes
at the glinting ice studding the stony
shells. I choose a suitable specimen
and prepare to break through- then take hold
and wedge my way in just there.
I take a gulp of air as briny liquor bursts
into my hand and look up triumphantly,
but everyone is gluttonously oblivious.
I open my mouth to say something, then shrug
and dive head first into the orgy.

[kristalynn]

I've never eaten oysters, but you pulled me in to the experience of it.

[Arlene]

I've seen it done on cooking shows and it looks hard and painful. This was deliciously told, sexy. I know that briny aroma, and now, thanks, the feel of it.

[5th column]

'Just' there - conveys something sexual..... How appropriate. Nice start.

[Janet]

Hi Angela. Enjoyed the indulgent tone. Nice, sexy start.

[Steven]

Sensual start, and makes me want to try some oysters. 'gluttonously oblivious', brilliant.

[Angela]

Thank you, kristalynn, Arlene, 5th, Janet and Steven. I am glad you saw the sexy. Now we are bouncing over to ugly.

02) Corn Liquor

I see the shady table at the farmer's market.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxx The old man waves me over.xxxHe'sHe's got a toothless
grinxxxand a lazy eye. xxxA roving eye?xxxxxxMy My inner eye
xxsquints.xxxxxI shrug it offxxxsee the bees swarmingxxxxxxxx
the peaches. he reaHe reaches underxxxtablethe tablexxx
xretrieves a sealed mason jarxxxxsloshes itxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for effect.xxxxxxxxx
I come closerxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxto inspect.xxxxHe smirks like he's hooked me.
xxx
ButxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI can hold myxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxliquor.

Mary! Mother of God! Jesus! Jesus!xxxxxxJesus. That burns.

sip sputter sip sputter sip sputter sip sip sip sputter gulp sip sip

Make lovexxxxlovexxlovexxstutterxxWhy won't youxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxlove me?
reflection in the window glassxxWretch!xxxretchxxxxxxShrew!
xxxxxpunchxxxxxpunchxxxxxpunchxxxxxxLine!xxxxxretchxxxxx
Punchline!xxxIt's axxxxxxxxjoke.xxxGet Get it?xxxxxxxxxdripxx

drip drip drip dripdripdripdripdripdripdripxdripxdripdripxx

xxxxdripxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxsipxxxxxxxPickled beets!xxcacklexx
Kitchen feat!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxGet it?xxxxxxxxxxxxxcacklexxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxcacklexxcacklecacklexxxstrokes the kitchen table

xxxwhimper sighsigxhsipsipsipsipsipsipsipsipxxsipxxxxxxxxxxxx

slaps the curly maple EAT! EAT! EAT!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxspill your gutsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxspill your gutsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxssssssspill your gutsx

sun glints on broken glassxxxxxxxgroanxxxxxneedle to thexxx
xxxxxxxscleraxxxxxxxxxvitreous humorxxcacklexxxxxHumor.x
Vitreous Humor.xxxxcacklecacklexxxHumor me.xxxOh God.xxxx
xxxxxxxxwhimperxxxxxxxxxxHumor me.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxPlease.xxxx

[Donner]

Hi, Angela, so glad to have your company and poetry this month!

Ugh, oysters. Not even the best poem could make me eat anything that's related to a slug. And yours is pretty good. I like the way you start and contrast the legendary Casanova with N who's obviously a neophyte when it comes to the ways of oysters. She's so proud when she gets her first one open, but then no one else notices, so she just dives on in. Nice juxtapositioning.

"Corn Liquor" is a rollicking stream of consciousness piece that needs more than one reading. I'll be bock.

Donner

[Angela]

Thank you, Donner!

03) Finale

Unwind your barbed wire
and feed it to my heart
I am depleted

[Emily Bronte]

Angela,

What a fantastic start you have so far. Loving your bravery with trying out different stuff, which is what NaPo is all about

Cheers,

Mari