Justin - Fantasy

About the writing

This was ridiculously hard for me because I like using realish words rather than fakish ones and unlike Carroll, I don’t have the drugs. Also, unlike Carroll, I do not have a fantasy story giving context to the many nonsense terms that I use so hopefully they are decipherable by internal clues. If not, hopefully it can be enjoyed for its soundishness.

Method wise, I developed a story about a pirate crew going after a sea monster, I then attempted to
write the nonsensical first stanza four times before deciding to write it straight and replace normal words with nonsense. When I requested my homeschooling wife assist me in making up words, I found out that one of the methods employed in learning to read is to give the kid nonsense words to practice sounding out without being tainted with meaning. So she offered lots of choices to fill in for real words. Enjoy

Mimsyskiffen

O’er moorig sloosh on slithig splaves
Where wox and walfins swid below,
Where grints await in sloshen javes
And man darrop to go.

“Beware the Mimsyskiff me crew!
The razor teeth and suckered limbs!
Beware the Flibflubs, and eschew
The grunious Pindernimms!”

With lopshots loaded in the breach,
Long hunted we our klimmery prey;
Made land upon a troolix beach
To plan another day.

And as we left the perene scape,
The Mimsyskiff, from watery hell,
Barred our exit from the cape,
Brannig our quest to quell.

One two! One two! The wintons flew
The lopshots mouths went bammenclack
We shot it down, and let it drown
And hauled one krenil back.

“Ye lads have slain the Mimsyskiff
Come raise a brock, ye noble men
Ah blecked day! Horrah! Horray!”
Bellowed the captain then.

O’er moorig sloosh on slithig splaves
Where wox and walfins swid below,
Where grints await in sloshen javes
And man darrop to go.