At the request of my sister, a character from the poem in yesterday’s post. As you might remember, Castro Rabbit appears in the final verse and, as far as I can understand it, he operates in ‘the meadow deep in the world squirrels’, so he’s got to be a bit of a tough cookie, surrounded by all those bright-eyed and bushy-tailed rodents.
I’m convinced that he has some connection with a scam involving ‘rattlebox-free shoes’, which gets a cryptic mention in verse 3.
Verse 1 sounds like the kind of hard-baked pulp-fiction dialogue he’d use, with more than a hint of a threat in it:
“Yeah, I know, but that is on the list,
Castro Rabbit, ‘Do you say . . .’, verse 1.
down there in the bulkhead . . .
and it’s not that ‘cauliflower’.”
But I think the line that he’s delivering here is: “Roger I’ll flax.”
A ‘flax’ must be the Squirrel Meadow equivalent of a fax, and as we’re veering towards Toon characters, Roger must be Roger Rabbit.
I’m looking forward to learning more about de Zee Cow, the one known for uttering the occasional grouse in verse 3.