Comments on: The Apple

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:45:42 +0000

Dear Mom,

I have a feeling that someday, you will get your chance. Remember, it’s all just a flick. Flick!

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:44:49 +0000

The Mrs. Burnses of the world will get their due. The Bible told me so.

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:43:59 +0000

Joe, you have once again lifted my seen stab at art and made it unseen. You know what I mean.

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:42:46 +0000

Sounds like a description of great sex.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:39:44 +0000

disturbing…yet enjoyable.

By: Lois

Lois — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:33:53 +0000

Oh geez, Scott I was right there and it really did dampen my first day of school. She said if I didn’t stop crying (over the horror that was happening there) I would get a spanking too! Imagine in this day and age if something like that had happened?

What can we do about the Mrs. Burns of the world?

Heal through the words….
Wow.

By: Joseph Bastow

Joseph Bastow — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:57:38 +0000

This is truly one of your best. Aside from the sickening nature of the subject matter, the control of the language here and the pop-up nature of this piece on the page is fantastic (as in “eyes popped/out of this poem)! I also like the classical/cannonical allusion the apple has to all that is at once a gesture of kindness and at once forbidden – the very nature of innocence lost. Very graphic in gesture and in tone. Fabulous.

By: peg mosel

peg mosel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:12:12 +0000

Mrs. Burns it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: peg mosel

peg mosel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:10:23 +0000

Scott, This is really tooo much. I wish you could have seen my face when I saw it. I was laughing so hard I was almost sick. The thing is, (this is for everyone who reads this,) if I had known this “b” spanked my child on his very first day of school, I would have killed her! You are so funny!!! Mom