alice-in-metamorpov/through-the-looking-glass/poems/for-your-amusement-part-5.typ

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#let poem(content) = {
set par(first-line-indent: 0em)
align(center, block[
#set align(left)
#set block(breakable: false)
#content
])
}
#poem[
#block[
“I sent to them again to say \
It will be better to obey.'
]
#block[
The fishes answered with a grin, \
Why, what a temper you are in!'
]
#block[
I told them once, I told them twice: \
They would not listen to advice.
]
#block[
I took a kettle large and new, \
Fit for the deed I had to do.
]
#block[
My heart went hop, my heart went thump; \
I filled the kettle at the pump.
]
#block[
Then some one came to me and said, \
The little fishes are in bed.'
]
#block[
I said to him, I said it plain, \
Then you must wake them up again.'
]
#block[
I said it very loud and clear; \
I went and shouted in his ear.”
]
]