In anticipation of the Alice in Wonderland play at the library and the Tim Burton movie, I've been re-reading Alice this week. So, of course, I had to write a poem somehow based on Carroll. I decided to parody the Carroll poem that parodied the Robert Southey poem (both called You Are Old, Father William -- although Carroll's is vastly more entertaining.)
You Are Young, Thomas William
“You are young, Thomas William” the grey cat cried
“And your hands are all chubby and fat,
And yet when I lay quietly by your side,
You grab at this poor, little grey cat.”
“Gabble,” said Thomas to the startled grey cat.
“Gabbledy, gabbledy, gack!”
The grey cat could think of no answer to that
So she rolled from her side to her back.
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