Posted by Atticus on September 28, 2004, at 15:50:28
Cheshire Cats Like me Flash Smiles
Playing croquet in Central Park
With live pink flamingo mallets
Is thirsty work, I need refreshments
As does my tattooed pierced friend Alice
And the Walrus and the Carpenter
Recall the fall of NASDAQ’s palace
While the Hatter in Trump Tower
Screams, “You’re fired!” with snide malice.In an Avenue A back alley
The Jabberwocky’s high on crack
And he’s in the crosshairs of Crips hired
By a Bandersnatch blissed on smack
But the White Rabbit was so twitchy
I had to give him a Xanax snack
Before I stole and pawned his pocket watch
To a dormouse who drives a hack.Deep in the shadows of the 6 line
Where the magic mushrooms grow,
A pimpin’ caterpillar’s sitting pretty
Amid the yuppies on the go
Watching with psychedelic smugness
As they trundle to and fro,
Tweedledees and Tweedledums
Swept in the subway current’s flow.“Off with their heads!” squawks the Queen,
Her bag-lady court in a grocery cart,
But all the chessman just say, “Fu** you,”
And keep on truckin’ for their part.
Mayor Humpty-Dumpty’s strutting,
A shell trying to look smart
But Cheshire Cats like me flash smiles
And stay hazy and apart.
-- Atticus
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