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The White Rabbit Explains His Perpetual Lateness

So why am I always late? Well, I’ll tell you straight I bought this watch from Tesco (yes, I know it’s not the best co) But I’ve been short recently, things to do, people to see Food to get and bills to pay, a final demand from the C.S.A. Honestly, I’m a rabbit, if I see a tail I’m going to have it A hundred sons and daughters more, irate fathers at my door Try providing for extended family, it can’t be done, you’ll soon see Worries about the price of hay, carrots cost more every day I get up before it’s light, find fresh grass, have a bite Then busy snoozing through the day until the sun flies away Out again as light fails, more eating and all it entails Digging a burrow for another brood (a pretty chick whom I wooed) My life an endless round of juggling, pleasing and struggling Keeping every wife sweet, no wonder I’m always beat And as for lateness, isn’t it a sign of greatness? Anyway I’m wanted I have to go, someone’s calling down below There really aren’t enough hours in the day...

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