Alice
or Alas?
"You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
-- Alice's epiphany on discovering the necessity of
Reason
in the comprehension of
Reality
* * *
But hop to Wonderland by any hole,
and plop your bunny buns at "WHO ARE YOU?" --
A duchess bored who baked a jelly roll?
The guinea piggy peppered of "Achoo!"?
A Tweedledum to Tweedledee attached?
The wheedled Tweedledumdee doubly dumb?
A dormouse dazed who left its door unlatched?
The hoar louse crazed whose theft ate up its crumb?
Dat scat fat cat that mockingbirdies mocks?
This hatter mad in padded pad and pate?
Some crotchety croquet queen lopping blocks?
One rabid rabbit gravid yet and late?
A lass who skips and flips on picture books?
An Alice who through thinking glasses looks?
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
the Pain of the wretched untold in
"Wonderland"
a revolving helios sonnet shakespearean satire menippean on
the Disneyland notion of
life as but a dream park --
a wonder to behold
january, 2023 -- yet messes of children taught
not to Logically look
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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