Tag Archives: Alice in Wonderland

most mad

Posted on April 17, 2022 by whimsygizmo

We’re all mad here. – The Cheshire Cat  Are you still mad?…Of course you are…– Alanis Morissette  :: the moon is drunk again on her own borrowed power and i am weary of her wax.  perhaps i shall form wings and whirl them to … Continue reading →

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making much 

Posted on April 7, 2022 by whimsygizmo

what if a much of a which of a windgives truth to the summer’s lie-E.E. Cummings  “‎You’re not the same as you were before…You were much more… muchier… you’ve lost your muchness.”–The Mad Hatter  :: okay, we wanted more (it’s true), than all this … Continue reading →

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Asking Alice 

Posted on April 4, 2022 by whimsygizmo

The white rabbit’s got a point: we’re all late, really, lost our muchness in the suchness of all this sway.  The moon’s got a wily way of spooning us our song,  hookah’d of a cloudand puffed out loud over tea.  See? Drink me says the … Continue reading →

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Late

Posted on April 23, 2021 by whimsygizmo

He’s got a big ol’ watch and (apparently) some kind of (very important) date. We don’t know what (we’re all mad here.)  Frankly, he’s quite frantic and perhaps it’s pedantic, but we’d really like to help the poor fella hop along.  We’d ask Alice, but she’s currently wee, and Tweedle Dum and … Continue reading →

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White Rabbits

Posted on April 20, 2021 by whimsygizmo

She’s seeing them again (she’s late, so late) and questioning her sanity and her size.  Drink me, shrink me calls the brew(she’s late, so late) and there are two (tweedle) twins to ponder.  She wonders what the Queen of Hearts will say when she sees these tears.  No matter, … Continue reading →

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Alice in (Daisy) Chains {Again}

Posted on April 20, 2021 by whimsygizmo

Does the rabbit love her? (The Queen of Hearts does not.)  If she drinks the “drink me” will her heart get caught  up in all this wonder? Will she be late, so late, for a date  with destiny? Will she shrink in her own skin, … Continue reading →

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sequence

Posted on April 15, 2020 by whimsygizmo

.. there are dragons, of course and some of them are wearing tutus and striped socks (because who can control these things?) and one sings acapella showtunes and shrugs feather-boa’d scaled shoulders at the world and you and you and … Continue reading →

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ask alice

Posted on January 30, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. if her smile’s gone all slant -like, or cheshire or shrink me-mad or silent. if the violence of the fall …..was worth it all, or if she’d rather go back for good, …..if she even could. ask her if … Continue reading →

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What Say Ye?

Posted on January 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

We entertain the mad. They whisper. – from “Tea Ceremony” by G.C. Waldrep .. Drink me …….(shrink me) down to nothing -ness, the best guess bliss of stirred honey, quiet leaves left.   Think me ……(blink me) sane, in small stages … Continue reading →

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