Jabberwock

Miss Merry didn’t like dogs

dogs were gnawy

Miss Merry didn’t like cats

cats were clawy

Miss Merry didn’t like the noise the wind made at night

dogs would stray and they often did fight

cats would not stay and would only tarry

and

Miss Merry thought she was never to marry…

….Mama was to blame, was what they all said, what with her pain   and her sufferings of the bowel, her innards as she said disreetly and nodded her head slowly so you could not miss her meaning. When she was indisposed she was indisposed temporarily only but often so and then she accompanied herself through the house by a cacophany of storms passing through her gut and her wailing at her colic and the loneliness of it all…the cold of the open windows at all times for the air to turn…no one would come near and no one came to court Miss Merry…

‘twas brillig, and the slithy toves

did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

all mimsy were the borogoves,

and mome raths outgrabe…

Beware the Jabberwock, she’d shout when she was looking for Miss Merry who ran to find her for the fear of him and for the comfort of her ample bosom and not mind her closeness for the terror,

beware the Jabberwock my son!

The jaws that bite.

The claws that catch!

Beware the Jujub bird…

…Miss Merry did not like birds either

And shun the frumious Bandersnatch!

who rested by the Tumtum tree

Oh bring the Jabberwock to me

The Jabberwock with eyes  of flame

Into Ma Merry’s garden came…

She only turned her back on him

would sort him quick,

it sounded grim.

Miss Merry cried, she was no son,

not a handsome prince would come,

no courtier,

no gentleman,

nobody came,

not even one…

Mama would pass wind and wail and cry

Miss Merry left,

could not stand by

she found a snake upon a beach

and took him home and

named him Sleach,

she called him son,

her Jabberwock,

she

fed him eggs

and

caught him flies

she

let dogs lie

and 

cats

and

birds

she’d curl up in her window chair

and stroke the creature

smooth ,

no fur,

no claw,

just little fangs inside his jaw…

He stayed with her

she talked to him

there was no need

for anything

she loved it all,

did not feel harried,

the creature slept

and

never tarried,

Miss Merry thought,

should she get married?