CDXCVII - Jabberwocky - The Case for the Defence.

dVerse Poets has the prompt 'Monster'.

I felt it was time to correct a great wrong

in children's literature: the maligning of the Jabberwock.

Apoplogies to Lewis Carroll.

Jabberwocky - The Case for the Defence.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

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“Come sit by me” the old one said

“I’ll tell you of your father’s death”

A Jubjub listened from a Tumtum Tree

And a Bandersnatch held its breath.

"He was a truly manxome beast

Who could whiffle with the best.

He loved to roam the tulgey wood

And pick flowers, to be pressed.

He would burble as he tripped along,

In search of nuts and fruit,

Until he met that uffish brat

With vorpal sword and tinny suit.

One, two!  One two! that awful thug

Attacked him in a frenzied spell.

Not only did he kill your dad,

He beheaded him as well!

We heard much chortling from the town:

“Callooh, callay, the beast is dead”

But the woods were a less frabjous place

When the Jabberwock was dead."

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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013

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