Snoopycember Week 4

Hello, all! Happy Monday and happy holidays if you’re celebrating anything. I am currently in a hotel room in Davenport, Iowa, eating cold deep dish pizza and watching Looney Tunes. Pretty nice, to be honest.

I plan to be doing different variations of eating pizza and watching Looney Tunes in different locations pretty much all this week. Probably some Christmas stuff too—I’ll probably have some sugar cookies or something too.

Which is all to say, this will be the only post this week. Apologies for two one-post weeks in a row, but I am very sleepy and also gearing up for a special Snoopycember finale next week. I hope you’ll (looney) tune in, In the meantime though, I have more prompts, and a few more poems to share. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday week no matter what it is you’re doing, and if the holidays are a bit of rougher time for you, I hope you get some time to be nice to yourself. My warmest Snoopycember wishes to you all.

Prompts

22. Malls were once a sacred space for Snoopy, until the Mall of America evicted him for Spongebob. Write a poem where you are walking through your hometown’s mall, as it currently stands (or doesn’t stand) with Snoopy. 
23. Watch a Charlie Brown Christmas and write a poem to Charles Schulz about how it made you feel.
24. Snoopy Claus is coming. What do you leave out for him? Do you try to sneak a peek?
25. The big day of gift-giving is here. Write a poem about the present you would give Snoopy for your holiday of choice while bemoaning the capitalistic expectations of the season.
26. In a letter to a fan on what it means to be a good citizen, Charles Schulz once said, “I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.” Write a poem in which Snoopy expands on this.
27. Snoopy likes to say “the less you care, the happier you’ll be.” Write a poem in which you debate this with him.
28. Did you know Snoopy has his own Hollywood star? Right the speech you would give for the unveiling ceremony. 

To Charlie’s Dismay, Snoopy Wins the House Decorating Contest

charlie i know the lights 

remind you of the store 

but this blue ribbon ive won 

for how i’ve let my home shine 

was never about directing the presents

i present to you charlie the idea that

fires that burn you can keep

you warm and maybe sometimes 

they mostly keep the arsonist warm 

maybe the ceo pricing our groceries 

wants to poison them, charlie i think 

you are on to something but please 

let me keep the glimmers 

of the red and green glow around my

younger self’s shadow charlie there are 

so many bones in my home i can’t 

taste them anymore 

World‘s Greatest Author

snoopy you are much more ambitious

than i am. i believe you when you call

yourself the worlds greatest author i believe

in everything you tell me you’ve seen 

and i believe the paw marks on 

your typewriter when they tell me

the paper is meant to be shared

i slam the keys til the stamp rips the page

snoopy i’ll never be the greatest and 

i’ve told myself that before but never 

in such plain terms i tell myself the same

clouds you sail through are the droplets you pulled

your stories from i pretend i can reach 

the verses you left etched in ice on the mountain

top piercing the wisps snoopy i won’t let myself

believe the hearts you’ve scribbled on my bones 

an apology to pigpen

pig pen i apologize i am scared

to catch your filth i was raised

on a farm and when my legs 

couldn’t hold me i became the dirt 

pig pen it’s not your fault i wish 

for cleaner origins pig pen 

i like to write to imagine myself 

as the world’s greatest but pig 

pen i resent you and your dirt 

because im watching it twirl 

in the absences ive made