Long Snippy Poems

(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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I walk into the AYA studio, apprehensive as I have never taken a dance class.
"Come on it!" Suzette, our dance master says. On the wall behind her there is a giant Moose wearing a pink...

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I am happily teaching my second grade students two bully-proofing strategies earlier today.
These powerful  anti-bullying techniques are "the thank you" and the "skip away" both invented by me.
First I explain that the mean bullying...

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The timeless mystery of Zanadeu lingers in my mind’s eye only in my dreams.
I have a bare whisper of confidence that I remember much of it now, however,
Once upon a dreamland state, it was my...

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1. Today, the weather feels like heaven's bliss!
        	
  2. The balmy breeze and beautiful soft blue
      		
  3. of sky...

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Gotta go down to the plantation today,
punch the clock and start the cubicle time labor
Work on whatever the boss say,
papers piling up from yesterday
Contact new clients to see what is their
desired target demographic pitch
Management meeting...

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I used to be a boss in the cut-throat business world
Until the day I woke and everything I ate I hurled
My belly grew, my energy shrank, so I "simplified" my life
Added two sons, lost bladder...

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Today is shake up day. We all knew it was coming.
Two of the teachers have been rejoicing for six weeks that they only had eight children in their classes.
We old-timers have chuckled our teeth out.
We...

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Dear Future Generations,

The candle did not know whether to snuff herself out
Or begin dancing around the cemetery and give a shout
She knew she was not going to join her cousin, on walk-about
But other than that,...

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Her fluorescent personality shone through like a beacon to us.
We all wanted to be close to her, her friend, her everything.
She was our star, and we followed her around like puppies.
No one made us feel...

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My neighbor lady, Treena, has a 'thing' for cats
Says they keep her home free of mice and rats
She pets their heads and their butts, she pats
when some of the snippy felines get into spats

She shares...

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Sirens sounded secretly securing source. Strait sacks swooshed scamps scaling sensitive sentries (simply spayed seals) surveying surrounding staked spy sotted sham semicircular slipshod shelter. Snappy, Snippy, Snoopy suited Skyhawks surprisingly swooped somnambulant senseless scriveners. Sargent...

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In the year of 1967 I was a freshman
In high school in a small Midwest Iowa town.
Before teachers cared about bullying 
and goofy stuff like kids’ feelings
We were not allowed to have them anyway back...

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In the year of 1967 I was a freshman
In high school in a small Midwest Iowa town.
Before teachers cared about bullying 
and goofy stuff like kids’ feelings
We were not allowed to have them anyway back...

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Her name does not matter
She did not use it any way
Preferring to be called Num
Short for numbers which is what she
was all about in spite of the fact
that math terrified her
She was a hanging girl
A...

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And Repeat
(Abuse)

Slowly you have begun a habit that needs stopped. 
It needs attention paid to it. Now!

Some days you are so very kind, some days you are not. 
There is no calendar, no memo, no...

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Here she comes again,
That clip-happy, snippy crone who fancies herself a gardener.
What?
She is doing such a horrible job of it.
She clipped two of us unmercifully yesterday,
And we both had potential, talent, and gloriousness
These other buds...

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How many owls can I hold? I wondered as they appeared.
They were perched on each limb as the night rider neared.
I cannot handle this volume, the night rider said in a mean way.
But we promised...

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No one can wholly understand love
Love is never what one thinks it is
Love often comes as a snippy surprise
As a starry shock stemming from above.

Love is a hieroglyphic puzzle
Love has the power to muzzle
Shackle, overpower,...

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Snippy was with
A family of five
Until he decided
To do a nosedive
In the water he went
Just shaking his tail
Swimming all around
Like he had set sail
But something took notice
Of this duck having fun
It moved in closer
Ready to...

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dah-DUM, dah-DUM, dah-DUM, dah-DUM, 

If they had sung a real good song,
Would not have joined and sung along,
If my friend had not drank so much,
Would not had paid, instead go dutch,

If they had kept their...

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