LilThought
01-18-2003, 12:58 PM
Lost in Wonderland
If I were Alice,
I would never have
chased after that
rabbit.
Down to that cavity
in the ground
where reality was
lost:
where Alice lost Alice.
Who would have
thought that
Wonderland,
her Utopia,
would feed on her
tears;
steer her from home;
lost, whimpering, alone:
Not I.
Nor I said the Queen
to court
or I Mad Hatter
to guests.
Should I,
Caterpillar to
Alice,
have been less
abrasive,
more lucid,
less Sphinx like?
And you dear child,
should you have been
more clever, less mystified,
more and less, yet not alike
tragic Oedipus?
But where is Alice?
Alice, Alice, Alice…
She’s lost in Wonderland.
If I were Alice,
I would never have
chased after that
rabbit.
Down to that cavity
in the ground
where reality was
lost:
where Alice lost Alice.
Who would have
thought that
Wonderland,
her Utopia,
would feed on her
tears;
steer her from home;
lost, whimpering, alone:
Not I.
Nor I said the Queen
to court
or I Mad Hatter
to guests.
Should I,
Caterpillar to
Alice,
have been less
abrasive,
more lucid,
less Sphinx like?
And you dear child,
should you have been
more clever, less mystified,
more and less, yet not alike
tragic Oedipus?
But where is Alice?
Alice, Alice, Alice…
She’s lost in Wonderland.