Twoz bollixed and the Javigna
did warp and wimble in their twee
all cringey were the Pakatwa
and the Gonabz did shree

“Beware, dear boy – the Gibberwock!
those fangs that sink and talons rip
beware the Junkie-bird and mock
that awful Tootle-pip”

That boy he took himself in hand
with weapon armed on tippy-toes
then sat beneath a bumbum tree
thoughtfully picking his nose

And while thus in doxley pose
the Gibberwock with eyes of fire
came waffling through the bulgey gro’es
and purpled like a liar

It whuffled squiffled sneaking low
gibbering like a Quackamo
came through the trees red eyes aglow
all five and rolling to and fro

And oh those fangs from north to south
six-feet high inside its mouth
saliva dripping from them too
its breath as foul as vindaloo

And oh its head reared hideously
was nine-feet high by twenty-three
upon a neck so slimpentine
it surely must fall off sometime

Struck with terror by that look
the boy reached for his weapon hook
and though he shivered fit to die
unsheathed his jabber held it high

And with that jabber in his mitt
slashed through its moneybags and whee
picked that cash up every bit
and ran and ran till he was free

And hast thou mugt that Gibberwock?
come to mine breasts dear brother boy!
oh fractured day! then chortled she
and bonked him silly in her joy

Twoz bollixed and the Javigna
did warp and wimble in their twee
all cringey were the Pakatwa
and the Gonabz did shree

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[This is a parody of Lewis Carroll’s, ‘Jabberwocky’
from his ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ 1872]

View the full-sized rendering of Gibberwocky [the Featured Image] in close-up detail.
It is an Acrylic Watercolour Painting I did in 1982, and is located in the Art Section of this site on Page 2 of the Fantasy Category.

Dave Draper 2015