Jasper Weymouth

Flumadiddle: noun; something completely nonsensical or ridiculous; cheap, worthless frills; a dish of potatoes, salt pork, and molasses.

In defense of flumadiddle, for the flummoxed and the fickle, 

For the wretched and the riddled with their eyes on front-to-back: 

Not to muddle the acquittal of effrontery belittled,

Quick and clear as font or fiddle, quintessential crackerjack, 

Disentangled paradiddles, inconsistent in their victuals, 

Crying ‘hey’ to diddle diddles singing further down the road,

Ebb and flow with glib precision, undermined by blind elision,

As the folly finds forgiven lackadaisy borogroves

Fortune’s favor, fast and brittle, formed by fits and fools and scribbles, 

grins and gloats beneath the drizzle of the tiffs and tricks and tells. 

Whimsey witters at the conscious, winks and whistles with the cautious,

trills and titters at the nauseous and the dauntless dunderbells.

Plums who dawdle, twist, or twiddle, brillig-bound1 by taradiddle,

too incensed and noncommittal to endure a page of faff, 

First befuddled by the flotsam, then belittled, misbegot, some 

pitied fool, an afterthought, some daisy daunted by the daft.

In conclusion, celebrated, underdone and complicated,

Overwrought but vindicated by the plaudits that it earns,

Folderol is fit to fiddle; let the reader choose the riddle,

Either wits of flumadiddle or the stupor of the stern.

1“Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll, 1871.