'Twas school time and the seniors rant
And gyre and gimble in the wade
All mimsy is the applicant
And the teachers outgrade

Beware the college essay child
The trite response, the drawn-out tome
Beware the boring and the mild
The overdone trip to Rome

She took her ballpoint pen in hand
Long time the right topic she sought
So rested she with a cup of tea
And sat awhile in thought

And as an uffish thought she wooed
The right idea with birsts of flames
Came whiffling through her muddled mood
And burbled as it came

One, two! One, two! And through and through
Her ballpoint pen went snicker-snack
She had it writ, she thought a bit
Then went gallumphing back

"Though hast wrote thy college essay?
Come to my arms, my beamish girl!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in a whirl

'Twas school time and the seniors rant
And gyre and gimble in the wade
All mimsy is the applicant
And the teachers outgrade

This poem is based on Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky"
It is one of the earliest poems that I ever really liked
I have had it memorized since Elementary School (the original)


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