Bleak PsychosisA Poem by David Lewis PagetThey
had kept her in a padded cell Since
she tried to slash her wrists, Throwing
herself against the walls In
what were psychotic fits, ‘She’s
genuinely paranoid, The
outlook’s not so bright, We
thought that she might come out of it If
we kept her overnight.’ She’d
been in there for a week or more And
there wasn’t any change, ‘If
we put her into a coma, we Could
rearrange her brain. She
said that her name is Alice, Can’t
remember her address, We
found her down on the river bank, In
a blood-stained party dress.’ We’d
just perfected a way to probe The
thoughts in another’s mind, I
wanted to try it out on her And
the doctors murmured ‘fine!’ We
placed her into the helmet that Would
analyse her brain, While
I hooked in to another feed That
would read her, just the same. I
found us both on a river bank In
the shade of a willow tree, Beside
us there was a rabbit hole As
large as it could be, Alice
reached and she grabbed my hand And
we dived into the hole, She
said, ‘You’re going to see horrors That
will terrify your soul!’ We
landed down in a garden, saw A
man in a stovepipe hat, Sitting
and drinking cups of tea With
a grinning Cheshire cat, She
took a sip and we shrank on down With
the table up so high, The
grass was looming above our heads And
reaching up to the sky. But
on the ground was an ‘Eat Me’ cake, And
Alice took a bite, We
suddenly zoomed on up to the roof, That
was almost twice my height. Alice
was crying a flood of tears And
she said, ‘It gets much worse! Wait
‘til we eat the mushrooms here, You’ll
think that we’ve both been cursed.’ Half
of the mushroom said ‘To Grow’, And
the other half ‘To Shrink.’ She
nibbled on one, before she gave me A
chance to even think, It
dropped us into a raging flood And
we swam to meet our fears, As
all the animals floated past In
a river of Alice’s tears. They
could have been magic mushrooms, or It
could have been cake with hash, For
Alice’s mind was full of things That
came and went in a flash, A
caterpillar appeared just then A
hookah in its mouth, A
rabbit, dressed in a waistcoat, checked Its
watch, went travelling south. I
didn’t know what to do by then For
Alice was falling apart, We
found ourselves in a courtroom With
the King and the Queen of Hearts, The
Queen was screaming at Alice that She
might as well be dead, While
Alice told her to stuff it, and The
Queen said, ‘Off with her head!’ I’d
seen enough and I ripped it off And
I shut the system down, Alice
sat in a daze with all The
doctors gathering round, ‘I
think that Alice has gone too far, Her
brain has turned to fluff, I
tell you - what she has going on, You
couldn’t write the stuff!’ David
Lewis Paget © 2013 David Lewis PagetFeatured Review
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