My Art in the Time of a Pandemic
Read lots of poetry today. Baked a lemon cake. Walked around my neighborhood. Listened to a Toni Morrison interview about racism. Thought about Carroll's poem Jabberwocky.
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
*Coronavirus Disease 2019:
Update in Maryland- 5/30/2020
Update in Maryland- 5/30/2020
52,015 confirmed cases
2,509 deaths 3,649 recovered
Update in New York State - 5/30/2020
369,660 confirmed cases
29,710 deaths 65,609 recovered
Total in United States: 1,769,776 confirmed cases, 103,768 deaths
Total Worldwide: 6,057,553 confirmed cases, 369,106 deaths
Total in United States: 1,769,776 confirmed cases, 103,768 deaths
Total Worldwide: 6,057,553 confirmed cases, 369,106 deaths
* All numbers are taken from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
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