All the Mad Hatters

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Madness, the Mad Hatter blinks. 
Madness, Oz's link. 
Repercussions of concussions.
Madness was Portnoy's Complaint*, 

Madness must reciprocate!

Hallucinations filter by
Leary* winks at Dali's eye.
A house lands on the wicked witches thighs.
Chicken Little wanders by.
 
"Madness," Hitler's honcho’s sneer. 
Madness splices genes with fear. 
"Lobotomize!" becomes the cheer. 
Kellogg’s* enema's find waiting rears.

"Are you the ass? Or is it me? 
Have I ears and a nose? What do you see?"

"Hehawww," said Pinocchio's friends.
"Heeehaw," said Darwin* back again.

Round and round went Steven Hawkings*.
"Madness," said Poe's raven* squawking.
"Madness," said Einstein* in a blink. 
It drive me crazy just to think!
"Reciprocate!," said the missing link.

* Art by Salvador Dali
* Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth states
   if you know you are crazy than you must be sane.
* Timothy Leary explored LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs.
* Kellog [of cereal fame] proposed enema's as the cure to 
   all health ills, plus loads of sex!
* Darwin proposed man evolved from apes.
* Edgar Allen Poe was mad when he wrote The Raven.
* Einstein had aspergers syndrome. 
* Steven Hawkings is a wheelchair bound scientist [has autism] 
   he extrapolates on the edge of mathematical reality.[Really!]

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012



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Date: 4/4/2012 11:42:00 PM
VERY well researched, Debs and it sure smacks of madness. Congrats on the HM.
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Date: 4/4/2012 1:53:00 PM
Beautiful and educational - who could ask for more. Mike
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Date: 4/4/2012 8:22:00 AM
Beautifully written,Debbie.Congratulations!
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Date: 4/4/2012 7:14:00 AM
this totally made me smile! especially when I got to the kellogg's line! lol! so awesome. sometimes you surprise me debbie. congrats on your win! enjoyed :P
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Date: 4/3/2012 10:04:00 PM
DEBBIE , Congratulations with your awesome poem, in Nathan's contest.. Have yourself a good night. :-) , luv~PD
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Date: 4/3/2012 11:26:00 AM
Congratulations on your win in Nathan's contest Debbie. Love, Carol
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Date: 4/3/2012 9:12:00 AM
Congrats on your well deserved win, Deb. Very clever and enjoying. Nice going, my friend. luv and huggs, Ralphie
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Date: 4/3/2012 8:24:00 AM
congrats, ;-)
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Date: 2/26/2012 2:37:00 PM
oh how cool ..how did u download to poetry page??? great poetry to go along with this photo luv.. thankxx for my win in Touched contest.. appreciate .. but your new one has me baffled a bit.. oh..
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Date: 2/26/2012 8:21:00 AM
sheer madness brings out endless possibilities, debbie.. i know of no person who created something different wtihout being mad in the right sense... you pushed the envelope here.. grreat new frontier of verse writing.. thanks for enjoying my piece for you; touched! :) huggs
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