"The Walnus And The Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand: ...... Read the rest of this poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/ | Poemhunter.com

I AM THE WALRUS. It’s from ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’; Alice in Wonderland. To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with The Beatles’ work. Later I went back and looked at it and realised that the Walrus was the bad guy in the story, and the Carpenter was the good guy. I thought, ‘Oh, shit. I’ve picked the wrong guy.’ But that wouldn’t have be