IN REVIEW: CHOCOLATE WATERS UNCENSORED, the CD by Andrena Zawinski Chocolate Waters, the CD, is available in a limited edition from Eggplant Productions, 415 W. 44th St., Ste. 7, New York, NY 10036 at $19.98 + $2 s/h. http://www.chocolatewaters.com New York based Chocolate Waters found her name near Hershey, PA-- as you will hear in the first cut of her CD, a comedic/dramatic poetic monologue, a performance poetry taking its earliest cues from the Second Wave of Feminism. This dishy stuff is cooked up from a recipe of one part political sensibility, another part herstory, healthy amounts of sensitivity, splashes and dashes of the tummy tickling, and is ultimately topped off with personality that is both sassy and savvy. The poems have titles as clever as their content is witty setting the tone for a playfully irreverent and daring work softened by humorous takes set in serious times. The poetry can sashay into the commonplace death of a pet on into the larger ideas of loss and transcendence. Many poems date back to 1973, so the collection will be a walk down memory lane for radical and cultural feminists who pounded the pavement of that era. Much of this work was either created or affected by a time when Millet, Brownmiller, Chesler and the like were producing tomes of narrative and research, when Marge Piercy was writing her now famous "Rape Poem," Susan Griffin producing the play "Voices." It will also be an amusing and edifying point of reference for emerging lesbian-feminists (the poet raps and sings, too) as the work dismantles epitaphs and clichès hurled at  groups on the edge of the mainstream. The dramatic monologist's shorter poems (aphorisms she calls "pot shots") offer a segue between longer and more intense works. Chocolate likens being a poet to "opening a car door and exposing yourself" and goes on to defining "being a good poet" as "opening that door and exposing others," as indeed she does as the poems brim with characters with all their charms and thoughts, rituals and quirks. The work takes its serious twists along a funny road and drives home the idea that behind every ounce of humor is a pound of truth. The most somber moments call to mind the work of Judy Grahn as "A Woman Talking to Death" and the lighter ones of Margie Adams' lyrics like "we are the lesbians, the leaping lesbians." Little wonder, as Waters has appeared with Kate Clinton, Alix Dobkin, Maxine Feldman, and others! A good portion are live recordings, applause and laughter included. Even modern day slammers might glean some pointers here from Waters whose work makes it both on the stage and on the page and is now available on cd. This is not just more bad girl poetry, plenty of which has been on the scene for some time. It's risky and it's clever. Its best moments are wit-charged attacks against hypocrisy that are sometimes caustic, oftentimes hopeful, always flirting with the risque or basking in the double entendre and sexual innuendo set inside a contemporary personal-as-the-political - where in the end, Chocolate "kisses you with lips that are your own."