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LEWIS CARROLL IN THE RABBIT HOLE.(Poem)

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From: Poetry
Date: 20010901
Author:DUNN, STEPHEN

 
   Too cruel, the poet thought, to bring Charles 
   Dodgson back. 
   Let Lewis Carroll survive with Wonderland and 
   Looking Glass, 
   those romps through the indignities of childhood. 
   Let's just think 
   of the Cheshire Cat, of croquet and the delightful 
   violence 
   of using hedgehogs for balls, flamingos for mallets. 
 
   He was courtly, an Oxford don, one of the great 
   photographers 
   of his century. Should it matter that children were 
   his only subjects, 
   young girls, some nude, and all of them his most 
   important friends? 
   He'd pay for that in Pomona ...

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