A modern take on Alice's world |
Alice no longer has to wander through a looking glass to check out Cheshire cats, all shiny furred and sleek with well filed claws such flawless smiles and eyes that prey upon victims yet unseen while still digesting on their pawns sacrificed upon the table of a heartless Queen atop looking glass towers where all the clubs are exclusive and the breathtaking views go for thousands of miles. . M Hatter in marketing still does teas with focus groupies on his knees but now inspired guesses scuttle back beneath imagination’s tresses giving way to science interrogated, quantified and engineered in full house suites of diamonds steeped in blood, And polished for their views On Foxtel News. Alice eventually stayed Doing awfully-Important-Work for White Rabbit solutions, down labyrinthine burrows at Wonderland Inc designing algorithms and reality syncs for the spades in suits Who carry guns they like to shoot ‘cos all their cards are bulletproof And though the maths is good the calculations stink. The only dissonance to be found is the whining doggerel whimsey hound that occasionally embarrasses guests by pissing from pots to the clash of spoons and restless rattle of half full cups who've heard it all before but only recall the suck and lap of pursing lips not what they said nor the howling lament of tea gone cold forgotten in the rush of feet to make it past the golden door before it forever shuts the last remaining trading floor on the last remaining chequered board where all the pieces must be sold and the king will do as he is told. |