Hey, this is DiGsTeR02. I want to share a poem with you that I doubt you have ever heard before. When my dad was younger, he found this poem in a poetry book at the library. He memorized the whole thing, and now, 40 years later, he rehearsed it to me. I was so stunned because of all the unique words that the author (Lewis Carroll) made up, making them onomatopoetic (words with sounds that suggest their sense). This is how it goes:

Jabberwocky

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jub Jub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in though.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


Isn't this awesome? I thought so, too. I hope you enjoyed it! I sure did! Hehe.

Now, off to memorize the whole poem like my father once did. I will remember this poem forever :)
~DiGsTeR02

Editor's Note: I hope that many of you have read this poem! It's a classic by the author of Alice in Wonderland, and is a much more intriguing story than you'd think, if you only know the Disney version. Carroll was pretty brilliant, both with words and with math... which just goes to show that you can be smart at everything, if you try. ;-)