Grabberwocky-2

(November 2016) Twas Hillig, but the Limey Gove Did whine and witter in the Brext. All Szyddly was the Orban cove And Grabberwock out-Mexed. “Beware the Grabberwock, my dear, The salesman’s talk, the dubious thatch. Beware his leakiwick, and fear His groomious undersnatch.” She took her righteous sword in hand. Her people cried “Deplore, deplore!” So rested she by the Dumdum tree— And thought “deplore” some more. And as in huffish thought she stood, The Grabberwock, with hair aflame, Came breitling through the barty wood, And goebbelled as he came. One, two! One, two! And through and through His virtual blade went twitter-t***. She got more voters, but he was POTUS And he getrumphed like that:- “See, I have slain the Hillinast! I’ll build a wall, hire every mate! I’ll bigly take America And make it really grate.” “I’ll put all Muslims in a book, Intern them just like Nips, And make sure Gooks use their own nukes For the Trumpocalypse.” “I’ll help the rich (more than that b****!). I’ll make the bankers fat. The blacks I’ll hump—and screw the Trump- enproletariat.” ’Tis chillig. For the Sess-i-ones Doth Bolt- and Bann-on on the right All Vladdy are Assange’s tones And prospects all outsh***. Rob Whitford Notes: 1. Needless to say, this is a parody of “Jabberwocky”, by Lewis Carroll 2. The first “Grabberwocky” was a much better poem—a “Jabberwocky” parody written in 1939 (http://www.waxdog.com/jabberwocky/nazi.html). Thanks to this for general inspiration, the title and the sadly still relevant verb “to goebbel”. 3. Re the slightly nerdy line 3, Beata Szydlo and Viktor Orban were the conservative nationalist Prime Ministers of Poland and Hungary, respectively, at the time..... Copyright © Robert Whitford 2016