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Lewis Carroll gave us the his wonderfully nonsensical and heroic poem of the Jabberwocky, but it takes a child to deliver it with such power. Check it out. A wonderful reading. I wish my college students could perform to this level.

Thrown with a slap The heft of cool clay Against stainless steel wheel Etched with concentric circles. Center. Crooked, imbalanced Like the bent rim From a childhood bicycle It thumps with Centrifugal petulance Against cupped and pressing Hands slouched over the work Muscling into form As the whirl of the wheel quickens and flings droplets [...]

Wandering in apart from the herd, Unpredictable (dangerous), Spirited and wild-eyed, With steady hand, Outside the lines you go. Corralled into rows, Orderly, controlled, Understanding the boundaries now, Your hand begins to shake. First grade eyes welling with tears.                He’ll adjust in time;                It’s the most natural thing. You learn helplessness. Managed into form; Artificial [...]