My Family Life [rev] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

My Family Life [rev]



I was born with exquisite awareness of an existential
abandon; what with grandma Strangelove & grandpa
Killdare and grandma Alice being Cinderella - I had a
choice to evolve as a rebel like my twin sis, an angry
Duchess - but became an insatiable crocodile trying
to fill the hole in my heart with the universes created
in books until I fell into Wonderland, and like Alice, I
changed in shape to become The Little Prince who
visited the exotic planet of bureaucratic Languages
so much; I stayed on and with Scorpion carved out

A lair where as Lord and Master of Crocodile Castle
he reigns as autocratic sovereign leaving Alice free
to try out as Miss Interpreter, while the two wee kid
crocodiles were left to existential abandon until one
day Alice realised she repeated the lifestyle of her
mother - the Queen of Hearts - who repeated the
life of grandma Alice who - abandoned as a child -
did not know how to offer love - just like the once
lost waif grandma Strangelove, & victim of abuse
grandpa Killdare, parents of Conan the Barbarian

Who, unlike the Phantom of the Opera, never won
the heart of his Christine, my mama the Queen of
Hearts - this is the story of my family life…

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22 August 2015
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