“Tea’s grilling, and the sloth’s toes

Did gear and gamble with their wage.

All misty were the biographers,

And the mime rats outrage.”

 

If Lewis Carroll used Spellcheck,

There wouldn’t be a ‘double Dutch’.

He’d have more literary respect.

He’s just so out-of-touch!

 

The worst thing is he’s a success!

Had he been typing with his feet?

From what I’ve seen he didn’t express

The gumption to delete.

 

It would be far more appetising

If he’d read in its inception:

“Fragment (consider revising)”

By pressing F7.

 

Microsoft underlined the script

With wavy green and red marker.

He ignored the talking paper clip

Sulking in the corner.

 

We could’ve made sense, and expunged

That which I am complaining,

If the problem had been overcome

With adequate IT training:

 

“Tea’s grilling, and the sloth’s toes

Did gear and gamble with their wage.

All misty were the biographers,

And the mime rats outrage.”

 

Adam Woolley