Alice and Friends
The White Rabbit scuttles and hurries --
Always late, he constantly worries.
He jumps into his hole, and Alice follows behind,
Not knowing just what she might find.
She falls and falls, till she reaches the floor,
Then she finds she can't fit through the door.
Finding a bottle that is labeled "drink",
She takes a long swallow, and starts to shrink ...
Now she is too small to reach for the key,
To open the door, and set herself free.
Then she spies a cake, with instructions to "eat",
And takes a bite of the delicious treat.
The cake makes her grow, till she is ten feet tall!
Now she can reach the key, but the door, not at all.
So, she grabs the key, and takes another swallow,
And shrinks down small enough, the Rabbit to follow.
She slides the key into the lock with a click,
And says to herself proudly, "That'll do the trick!"
When she opens the door, she is two feet tall,
But, she does not stay that size, very long at all.
She spends the day shrinking and growing,
Wandering about, not sure where she's going.
She talks to a caterpiller, who is smoking a pipe,
Sitting a-top a mushroom, that is really quite ripe.
He tells her the mushroom can change her size ...
But boy, is she in for a big surprise!
One bite of the mushroom, Alice does take,
And her neck grows so long, it looks like a snake.
This frightens the birds that are all around,
And they all start making a terrible sound.
She nibbles some more, till her size is true,
Then goes in search of more things to do.
Thinking she will meet someone normal yet,
The Duchess and her child give her no cause to fret.
But, when the Duchess gives Alice, her child to nurse,
She decides right then, it has gotten much worse!
The Duchess' child is most certainly a pig,
(Though not pig-sized -- it isn't that big).
While nursing the pig, she chats with Cheshire --
A strange cat who is curled neatly, in front of the fire.
He gives her directions to find the March Hare,
And she goes out searching for the way there.
But the Cheshire Cat is now up in a tree,
Far above her head, where she cannot not see ...
Then suddenly his whole body takes shape in mid-air,
And gives poor Alice the most frightful scare!
After talking awhile, she goes on her way,
Thinking, "Indeed, it's mighty odd day!"
After walking some time, she sees a neat house,
With Mad Hatter, March hare and the Dormouse,
Outside at a table, with goodies and tea,
And Alice thinks, "This is right where I want to be!"
There, she plays musical chairs to her heart's content,
And listens to dormouse snoring, without relent.
Upon waking, he tells a story that makes no sense,
And Hatter and Hare become rude, calling her dense.
So she decides the tea party isn't the place for her,
And goes on her way, leaving them as they were.
The Queen is the next one she meets on her way,
Who insists that Alice join her game of croquet.
The game is played with hedgehogs and flamingos,
And only the Queen may win, everyone knows,
Otherwise, she will yell "Off with their heads!"
In a game like this, one could soon end up dead!
Next, she meets Gryphon and Mock Turtle...what a thrill!
And watches a curious dance; the Lobster Quadrille.
When she returns to the King and Queen of Hearts,
She finds them holding court over some stolen tarts.
These were no ordinary tarts, but the Queen's you see,
And she was accusing the Knave of thievery.
The King plays the judge, though he hasn't a clue,
Of just what a judge is supposed to do.
A group of silly creatures makes up the jury,
But their silliness, only adds to the Queen's fury,
And she says "Off with their heads" repeatedly
Making Alice argue with her heatedly.
But, Alice has grown a mile since the start of the hearing,
So neither the King nor the Queen was she now fearing.
At her full height, she stands way up in the sky,
And what happens next? A pack of cards fly...
The entire court flew towards her, making her scream,
And next she wakes up -- it was only a dream!
Tyger Thomas copyright(c) 1997
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