We've been here before Alice tells the Queen
on her jogging route.

And the foliage folds like cards
into the teapot stream.

We have been here before
Alice tells the Queen.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
are on summer recess.
Neither of them can remember
his history lesson.

And Humpty Dumpty is in peices
because his girlfriend dumpted him.
And even Rehabilitation cannot put him
back together again.

And the Walrus and the Carpenter
discuss the existential meaning
of who eats who in the Animal Kingdom

We have been here before
Alice tells the Queen

And the white rabbit
is always late for his hearing.

And Alice tips off the Queen
that this is a fairy tale.

And I am the Mad Hatter
I have been here before
with my Cheshire grin.

by Marjorie Sadin