fileg mentioned in her lj that it was national poetry month. Then, on a recent episode of Time Trax, Selma recited the first two lines of Jabberwocky and it got me thinking. The only poetry I've read (out of choice) have been comic verse, generally by Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear. I loved the latter's limericks when I was little. I can, though, manage the first verse of Jabberwocky from memory, although I'd have to look up what it means (and my book is currently in a different part of the country to me):

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

My favourite from Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass was always The Walrus and The Carpenter though, which does, of course, have the well-known verse:

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

The one other piece that sticks in my mind is this one:

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other

Which appeals to my slightly warped sense of humour. There was a second verse but I don't know what that is (perhaps I'll try a google search when I've posted this).

In other topics, I am in theory getting things done this weekend that I've been putting off due to being too busy, or recovering from being too busy. Technically, I'm stil recovering being as I now have the office post-overwork cold.

We're 1-all in the tennis and the doubles starts this afternoon. For some strange reason they don't seem to be showing the reverse singles tomorrow though, unless they're assuming we'll beat Luxembourg. We certainly ought to but that's no guarantee.

I'm also going to go and see Starsky and Hutch on Monday. It's cheaper to go to the cinema on a weekday before 5pm than it is any other time - even if it's a bank holiday, which is weird. The cinema isn't shut at all over the weekend - I think the only day they do shut is Christmas Day.

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