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At clearance in the mythy grove,

the monster, there, could not be hid;

and I, the faithful Mimsy Borogrove,

looked on the gibbering gibbous DoDoesDid.

Beware the gibbous DoDoesDid my friend:

it sucks the life from verbs that once were strong,

and weakens them, so that they sound too much

gibberish and that is just plain wrong.

So take your sharp red pen in hand

and chase this monster to the antipode.

Pursue it under seas and over land;

and beware as its kicks against your goad!

It strangles sentences and presses

the very life out of the verbing.

Found in its wake arevmangled messes

with an old fashioned tense that is disturbing.

It seems to help salvage a rhyme

for peots who find rhyming hard;

but sabatoges, every time,

their doggerel's---like a greeting card.

Capture the thing and put it in

a gascan with a well sealed lid;

then doubly seal the seal again,

and mark it as "The DoDoesDid."

Do not release the DoDoesDid

into our once again bucolic grove.

Of that monstrosity we are well rid,

or my name isn't Mimsy Borogrove.

Starward