Slipping into Madness

A-2: Mirror Writing

Using this program - Mirror Writing or Mirror Writing 2 - write a poem about arriving in the Looking Glass World and what you experience there on your first day. (<40 lines)

I stepped through the glass and there I found--
Every in was an out, and the sky was the ground,

I tried to get up and went straight to bed,
I brushed my feet and shoed my head

I walked on my hands and spoke inside out,
I spoke metric verse though I wanted to shout,

I was blind as an eagle and swift like a bat
I worked five to nine like a napping cat,

I had breakfast for dinner and dessert for snack
Every bite that I took filled my plate front to back,

And my ups were all downs and my lefts were alright,
So, I slipped past my dreaming and into the night.

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.Ɉʜϱin ɘʜɈ oɈni bnɒ ϱnimɒɘɿb γm Ɉƨɒq bɘqqilƨ I ,oƧ
,Ɉʜϱiɿlɒ ɘɿɘw ƨɈʇɘl γm bnɒ ƨnwob llɒ ɘɿɘw ƨqυ γm bnA

,ʞɔɒd oɈ Ɉnoɿʇ ɘɈɒlq γm bɘlliʇ ʞooɈ I ɈɒʜɈ ɘɈid γɿɘvƎ
ʞɔɒnƨ ɿoʇ Ɉɿɘƨƨɘb bnɒ ɿɘnnib ɿoʇ Ɉƨɒʇʞɒɘɿd bɒʜ I

,Ɉɒɔ ϱniqqɒn ɒ ɘʞil ɘnin oɈ ɘviʇ bɘʞɿow I
Ɉɒd ɒ ɘʞil Ɉʇiwƨ bnɒ ɘlϱɒɘ nɒ ƨɒ bnild ƨɒw I

,Ɉυoʜƨ oɈ bɘɈnɒw I ʜϱυoʜɈ ɘƨɿɘv ɔiɿɈɘm ɘʞoqƨ I
,Ɉυo ɘbiƨni ɘʞoqƨ bnɒ ƨbnɒʜ γm no bɘʞlɒw I

bɒɘʜ γm bɘoʜƨ bnɒ Ɉɘɘʇ γm bɘʜƨυɿd I
,bɘd oɈ ɈʜϱiɒɿɈƨ Ɉnɘw bnɒ qυ Ɉɘϱ oɈ bɘiɿɈ I

,bnυoɿϱ ɘʜɈ ƨɒw γʞƨ ɘʜɈ bnɒ ,Ɉυo nɒ ƨɒw ni γɿɘvƎ
--bnυoʇ I ɘɿɘʜɈ bnɒ ƨƨɒlϱ ɘʜɈ ʜϱυoɿʜɈ bɘqqɘɈƨ I

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