‘Twas brillig
a celebration of the nonsensical
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Art work and a
five-part poem inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky from Alice in
Wonderland.
Jabberwocky
’Twas brillig, and the slithy
toves
Did
gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And
the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The
jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The
frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long
time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And
stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he
stood,
The
Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey
wood,
And
burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through
and through
The
vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He
went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the
Jabberwock?
Come
to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He
chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy
toves
Did
gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And
the mome raths outgrabe.
Sensical
Un
I
This centuries’ old poem
still
rings in my ears
when not covered by hands
of those
telling me to sit up
and think straight –
II
For god’s sake
they lament
III
such language
is
un
urban
un
bridled
IV
un
repentant
Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland
V
I am not
through
the looking glass clear
but sure-foot-edly
going
down the rabbit hole
of this
head first.
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