‘Curiouser and curiouser!’
They didn’t tell me
just how far I’d fall
and what sorts of things
I would find
Bottle said: Drink me!
so I gulped it down
all so fast
I see myself changing
feeling very small
I’m floating in a pool
a pool of tears
and water flows fast
It whirls and ripples
getting sucked under
can’t reach
a breath to breathe
Trying to remember what I know
to get me out of
such a mess
Pointless school rhymes
jumble and fill my head
it went like this,
“how doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!”
Ah, it’s all
nonsensical
now, and I can’t find my step
Oops! slipped off the edge
too tired to swim
now I’m gonna drown
in a pool
of
my
own
tears.