(Apologies to Lewis Carroll)
Jibbercrocky
'Twas profflig, and the slimy toads
did gyre and gambol in the welth.
All flush were the shareholds,
With wind falls payd by stelth.
"Beware the Jibbercrock, Dear Sue!
The laws that bite, the clause that catch!
Beware the Precondisch, and shun
the spurious Rescindersnatch!"
She took her vorpal bird in hand:
Long time the monied foe she sought-
So rested she by a Rubber tree,
And stood a while in thought.
As in foolish thought she stood,
The Jibbercrock, saith ‘deny thy claim’,
Came snuffling through the lucry wood,
And lobbied as it came.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal chick went snick-snick.
She left it dead, and with its Hydrae head
She went galumphing quick.
"Hast not I slain the Jibbercrock?
With my deadlish bird, my famous barter
O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!"
She chortled, "now who’s smarter?"
'Twas profflig, and the slimy toads
did gyre and gambol in the welth.
All flush were the shareholds,
And the wind falls payd by stelth.