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It’s all just so https://youtu.be/ZSSW3YNgzNQ

Red white and blue make some shade of purple (maybe not that different from that of the deep embarrassment and shame all our collective American faces should have turned about now), not Green.

I’m thinking this poem will just become a regular segment on the blog, for things I can’t possibly comment on intelligently.

Jabberwocky
- By Lewis Carroll

’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.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

Find more about the poem here.

Link to Mirror article (because what is news anymore but spectacle, anyway)

Cover image credit: Photo by William Murphy. JABBERWOCKY BY ANN DILLON CATALOGUE REFERENCE 45 [SCULPTURE IN CONTEXT 2018]-144069 https://flic.kr/p/2aPfnHq