From the Toike Vault

Written in the days preceding Carroll’s death in 1898, “Do You Take Marzipan in Your Spaghetti, Mr. Squirrel? For I Always Do When I Dance the Merengue!” was Lewis Carroll’s final work. Also known as “The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” it has gone unpublished for over a century. The Toike Oike’s “brilliant” “staff” of “historians” and “English Literature majors” rediscovered the work in an underground library in Baku, Azerbaijan. Here it is published for the first time.

“Do You Take Marzipan in Your Spaghetti, Mr. Squirrel? For I Always Do When I Dance the Merengue!”

Mr. Squirrel, Mr. Squirrel with three golden wings unburled

Dancing and eating much many merengue

Words, shmurds, papadams and chutney you hath hurled

With his sword drawn a-shloop doop-a-boop a fengay

 

Do you, Mr. Squirrel, take marzipan?

Marzipan in your Spaghetti?

For I, sir, always take marzipan,

When I dance merenghetti!

 

Merengue, merengue,

Many despacito.

Dancing a-fengay,

Eating sopapito!

 

O, Squirrel, o, squirrel

Do you take marzipan in your spaghetti?

Sir Squirrel, Sir Squirrel

Do you forgetti your regretti?

 

He squirbled and jabbled,

His teeth clenched oh-so tight.

He burbled and babbled!

He ate spaghetti all night!

 

Do you, Mr. Squirrel, take marzipan in your spaghetti?

Can you feel the love tonight-erengue?

Do you, Mr. Squirrel, take marzipan in your spaghetti?

For I do whenever I dance the merengue!