#lewiscarroll - Hello Poetry

Why do mechanics need manuals when they’ve fixed it before? Answer my question or I’ll walk out the door! Didn’t they attend trade schools or get O.J.T.? Why need repair manuals? That what gets me. I just want a mechanic who won’t refer to a book. Just fix my car already, don’t give it a second look! Why do pilots run checklists and reference their charts? Just push the dang button and hope the plane starts! Didn’t they go to flight school and pass all the tests? Pilots fly most days, so who needs all that mess? I want a pilot who knows without referencing a chart. Just get on with the flying and prove that you’re smart! What about the doctors who are practicing still? Why can’t they get it right? And that includes the bill! They’re always researching new studies in journals When time’s better spent attending patients’ internals. I just want a Marcus Welby, Ben Casey or Kildare Instead of keeping up to date, I just want them to care. Why do lawyers review case studies and legal decisions? Such antics in my book leave them open to derision. All that studying in law school should have been enough. After passing the bar they should already know their stuff. I just want an attorney who’s a know-it-all ace, Not a book worm mouthpiece to plead my case. Finally, the poets, being wordsmiths their art You won’t see them referencing a checklist or chart But look, in their hands, just what can that be? A dictionary? Thesaurus? Are those what I see? A real poet never needs help reading Shakespeare or Keats Using Webster and Roget would make all of us cheats! If a poet is real, the words should just flow I think that all poets should automatically know The right words to use, and literary crutches forgo How dare they try better vocabulary to hone They should come up with good things to say on their own. I’m looking for poets who’ll just know what to say Like Lewis Carroll’s poems in his heyday: “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe.” Don’t bother looking up his words, for that would be a dumb thing. Using a dictionary or thesaurus, you might actually learn something!

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Oct 26, 2019

Oct 26, 2019 at 10:20 PM UTC

poetry2go

Jabberwock Revisited

Why do mechanics need manuals when they’ve fixed it before? Answer my question or I’ll walk out the door! Didn’t they attend trade schools or get O.J.T.? Why need repair manuals? That what gets me. I just want a mechanic who won’t refer to a book. Just fix my car already, don’t give it a second look! Why do pilots run checklists and reference their charts? Just push the dang button and hope the plane starts! Didn’t they go to flight school and pass all the tests? Pilots fly most days, so who needs all that mess? I want a pilot who knows without referencing a chart. Just get on with the flying and prove that you’re smart! What about the doctors who are practicing still? Why can’t they get it right? And that includes the bill! They’re always researching new studies in journals When time’s better spent attending patients’ internals. I just want a Marcus Welby, Ben Casey or Kildare Instead of keeping up to date, I just want them to care. Why do lawyers review case studies and legal decisions? Such antics in my book leave them open to derision. All that studying in law school should have been enough. After passing the bar they should already know their stuff. I just want an attorney who’s a know-it-all ace, Not a book worm mouthpiece to plead my case. Finally, the poets, being wordsmiths their art You won’t see them referencing a checklist or chart But look, in their hands, just what can that be? A dictionary? Thesaurus? Are those what I see? A real poet never needs help reading Shakespeare or Keats Using Webster and Roget would make all of us cheats! If a poet is real, the words should just flow I think that all poets should automatically know The right words to use, and literary crutches forgo How dare they try better vocabulary to hone They should come up with good things to say on their own. I’m looking for poets who’ll just know what to say Like Lewis Carroll’s poems in his heyday: “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe.” Don’t bother looking up his words, for that would be a dumb thing. Using a dictionary or thesaurus, you might actually learn something!

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Indeed, father! The Jabberwock is nigh! I’ll go with my vorpal sword, his head will be no more and slay him down, will I! I’ll meet him in the tugley wood by the Bandersnatch domain. I’ll wait for him on the edge, for his head, I’ll come to claim. I have slain the Jabberwock, his body will decay! Let’s all meet by the Tumtum tree and rejoice this frabjous day! The slithy toves and mome raths all now well understood. ’ Twas brillig, it was Indeed, for it ended as it should.

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Oct 18, 2020

Oct 18, 2020 at 2:38 PM UTC

RebeccaAnn

Who Hath Slain The Jabberwock?

Indeed, father! The Jabberwock is nigh! I’ll go with my vorpal sword, his head will be no more and slay him down, will I! I’ll meet him in the tugley wood by the Bandersnatch domain. I’ll wait for him on the edge, for his head, I’ll come to claim. I have slain the Jabberwock, his body will decay! Let’s all meet by the Tumtum tree and rejoice this frabjous day! The slithy toves and mome raths all now well understood. ’ Twas brillig, it was Indeed, for it ended as it should.

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A chortle is a slythy gleeblish burstle of verbivore snickerdazzle daufter. To chortle is to gigglenuzzle bubbles of snottish glimmerguts that tickletwist speworling belly happyspritz and vorment fuzzlefizzes out your nose.

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Apr 19, 2025

Apr 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM UTC

MonkeyWrites

A chortle is

A chortle is a slythy gleeblish burstle of verbivore snickerdazzle daufter. To chortle is to gigglenuzzle bubbles of snottish glimmerguts that tickletwist speworling belly happyspritz and vorment fuzzlefizzes out your nose.

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