{"id":5060,"date":"2013-12-31T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:06:07","slug":"twas-the-week-after-christmas-a-faux-poem-by-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/twas-the-week-after-christmas-a-faux-poem-by-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Twas the Week After Christmas: A Faux Poem by Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because of the number of GertrudeandAlice anniversaries happening in 2014 (see previous post) , I thought it would be fun to speculate that hidden in the bottom of one of the archive boxes at Yale, there was a journal with a number of pieces that Alice had written, unbeknownst to Gertrude. Among them was Alice\u2019s take on the Clement Moore Christmas standard in which she anticipates the activities of the new year 1934.<\/p>\n

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[As with many of Gertrude\u2019s notebooks in the Yale collection, Alice\u2019s notebook also contains marginalia which is noted following the poem.]<\/p>\n

\u2018Twas the week after Christmas, when all through the rue<\/i><\/p>\n

There was so much excitement and so much to do.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The stockings from Christmas still hung by the stove <\/i><\/p>\n

And Lovey had left piles of papers in droves.<\/i><\/p>\n

New Year\u2019s Eve too had passed and a new year\u2019d begun,<\/i><\/p>\n

It was now \u201934 with a lot to be done.<\/i><\/p>\n

All our friends want\u00a0 a visit from us to the States<\/i><\/p>\n

Since my \u00a0Autobio\u2019s \u00a0a hit, though it’s really a \u201cfake!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

And the opera with Virgil is prepared to debut<\/i><\/p>\n

With the pigeons and saints all ready to queue.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Tender Buttons is twenty, we\u2019ll give it a shout,<\/i><\/p>\n

Though there still ain\u2019t a soul who knows what it\u2019s about!<\/i><\/p>\n

What a year it could be if we do do things right,<\/i><\/p>\n

Lovey\u2019s star is arising like the Magi’s bright light!<\/i><\/p>\n

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On Balthazar, on Melchior, on Casper and on Clyde, the camel (thank you Ray Stevens!)<\/p><\/div>\n

Here I stand in my kerchief and Basket needs to go out,<\/i><\/p>\n

Miss Stein is still napping, so I’ll take him about.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Many say I should write \u2018bout my life as a cook<\/i><\/p>\n

Maybe someday I will, there\u2019s still time for that book.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Now, Henri: now, Francis; now, George; now, Pablo<\/i><\/p>\n

On Ernest, on Thornton, on Janet , let\u2019s go<\/i><\/p>\n

Into this year with great hopes for the best,<\/i><\/p>\n

Come Basket, tout suite, then it\u2019s time for our rest!<\/i><\/p>\n

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[Marginalia: \u201cI have always detested this poem, possibly because it was read to me over and over as a child and I had to read it over and over to my brother Clarence. I have only used\u00a0 Mr. Moore\u2019s doggerel as a starting point for my reverie on the new year and not because it is in anyway great literature.\u201d ABT]<\/p>\n

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Because of the number of GertrudeandAlice anniversaries happening in 2014 (see previous post) , I thought it would be fun to speculate that hidden in the bottom of one of the archive boxes at Yale, there was a journal with a number of pieces that Alice had written, unbeknownst to Gertrude. Among them was Alice\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-facts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}