The Rabbit and the Hatter

not being
able to tell
if dusk's veil 
is ascending
or are my 
eyes 

slowly
closing
intending
to take me
beyond 
returning

from dreams
of happy
madness
making me
not able to
retrieve

the sanity
that wasn't
even granted
to me in those
supposed
childhood

blisses of glee
intriguing me
to wonder
what they
were to
be

as my sister
invited me
to the table
with her
dolls and
dishes and

delicious
invisible
tea asking
one lump or
two or perhaps
three or more for

you may have as
much or as little
as you want but
the doctor
decides the
voltage

because no
tongue sandwiches
on the pink plastic plates
will sate the burning nuerons
or snap the synapses that told me
i was at a mad tea party but never invited
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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October 24, 2019 at 8:12 PM
lol, I enjoyed that, as a kid it's imagination as an adult it's insanity, I think I did a poem along those lines once, well done
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October 25, 2019 at 8:09 PM
Yes exactly Nick. Watch the TED episode about what classifies a person as insane; and then psychopathic.
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