By Misti
Date: 2001 Sep 26
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Oh, Bother!

"'How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.
'Are you to get in at all?' said the Footman.'That's the first question, you know.'
It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so.
'It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself,'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!'"
~Lewis Carroll, *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*

oh, bother
outside influences
are creeping in
pesky little poisoned
critters
annoying little sucking
mosquitoes
swat! swat!
stop! stop!
what a lot of nonsense
swamp creatures lurk
they are illiterate
but they know Revelations
frontward and backward
the world is burning
they're having a party
hearty God Bless You!s
abusing our poor battered ears
don't pray for us...please
don't worry about our mortal souls
we're living now
loving out loud
in color
there is not a purpose and a season and a rhyme
and a reason
for all things under the sun
save the cliches
and the homespun cross-stitched mottos
hang your cheaply framed plaque elsewhere
we're out of wall space
and time
your sandals squish slime
from walking the road to hell
so well paved
with good intentions.