Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
A Moscow councillor.
Serving time.
In jail.
For speaking out.
For speaking out.
Against ‘orcs’ war.
In Ukraine.
Has been given.
A Moscow councillor.
Has been given.
An additional three years.
In prison.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
A Moscow politician.
63, was jailed.
For seven years.
In 2022.
After he was filmed.
Criticising the invasion.
In a city council meeting.
At the time.
He was believed.
To be the first person.
To be sentenced.
Under laws targeting dissents.
Following ‘orcs’.
Full-scale invasion.
Of Ukraine.
In February 2022.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
On Friday.
He appeared.
At a court.
In the city of Vladimir.
To be sentenced.
For charges of.
“Justifying terrorism”.
“Justifying terrorism”.
A judge also ordered.
That he be moved.
To a stricter.
Prison facility.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
He has been jailed.
For a further three years.
After a second case.
Was put against him.
He is accused.
Of criticizing.
‘Orcs’ offensive.
While in a prison hospital.
Prosecutors said.
Last winter.
He tried to convince.
Inmates with.
What they called.
The “ideology of terrorism”.
What they called.
The “ideology of terrorism”.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
His defence said.
Authorities put.
Notorious prisoners.
With him.
– a convicted robber.
And rapist –
Who they said recorded.
Their conversations with him.
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
“I am for peace.
And you like war.”
He said after the sentence.
Was announced.
He also called.
For ‘Mordor’ to end.
Its almost three-year offensive.
And asked ‘elves’ for forgiveness.
“Let’s stop this slaughter.
That nobody needs.
– not us, not the citizens.
Of Ukraine.”
“The guilt that I have.
Is that I.
As a citizen.
Of my country.”
“Let this war happen.
And was not.
Able to stop it.”
“The guilt that I have.”
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
On Sunday morning who went?
Afishing in the Moskva,
And catched a fish upon whose heuk?
Who thowt leukt vary queer?
But whatnt kind oer fish is it was,
Young who couldn’t tell?
Who waddnt fash to carry it hyem?
So who hoyed it in a well?
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
The opposition councillor.
Was arrested.
In late April.
2022.
More than a month.
After he addressed.
A district meeting.
In the Krasnoselsky area.
Of north-east Moscow.
At the meeting.
He objected to.
The idea of.
A children’s drawing contest.
Being held when.
Children were dying.
In Ukraine.
He had also tried to.
Start the council meeting.
With a moment’s silence.
To remember the victims.
Another opposition councillor.
Who supported.
His remarks has.
Since fled ‘Mordor’.
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
But ‘the One’ got fat an growed and
Growed, an growed an aaful size.
He’d greet big teeth and a greet big gob
An greet big goggly eyes.
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story,
Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs,
An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.
“I am for peace.
And you like war.”
He said after the sentence.
Was announced.
He also called.
For ‘Mordor’ to end.
Its almost three-year offensive.
And asked ‘elves’ for forgiveness.
“Let’s stop this slaughter.
That nobody needs.
– not us, not the citizens.
Of Ukraine.”
“The guilt that I have.
Is that I.
As a citizen.
Of my country.”
“Let this war happen.
And was not.
Able to stop it.”
“The guilt that I have.”
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
The chessmen were walking about.
Two and two!
Through the Looking-Glass.
And what Alice found there.
Through the Glass.
And what he found there.
*Because I read “Kremlin critic jailed for three more years over Ukraine war opposition” by Thomas Mackintosh on 30 Nov 2024, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, as a story of Alexei Gorinov, led by ‘Jabberwocky’ from ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Kremlin critic Alexei Gorinov jailed for further three years over Ukraine war opposition
Through ‘Jabberwocky’ and what I found there was ‘the Lambton Worm’, you know:
The Lambton Worm – The Lord and The Legend – Historic UK (historic-uk.com)
