ALICE
©Max Sharam
Alice in your dolls house
painted flowers in bloom
cartoon corners and sweet
delights
rascals and rag dolls and
starfilled
nights
Alice there's no firewood
monopoly money won’t do
chimneys tower, winter looms
that red-suited gentleman
can't get
through
He cant afford to come down
wooden soldiers burn and
cut-out clowns
When your ma and pa were
together
no more
Mr. Golliwog flew the coop
You became mother, you grew
up real
fast
where is your childhood now
where is
your past?
Alice's bridedoll let her veil
fall
the contract she signed she
tore
She had goldenlocks but she
chopped
them off
rascals and romeos everyday
she robbed the Romeos left
nothing
to say
locks look nice but they
get in the
way
Alice read her horrorscope, she
led
her life
she learned to cope &
when her
mother died
Alice grew and Alice sang
“It's all worth it can't
all be bad
It's all worth it at least
I had Alice’
Alice sees her reflection only
once
in the day
She likes herself, she
needs no help
donates her smiles to all
the others
She’s still a little girl
but only with her lovers
It's all worth it can’t all
be bad
It's all worth it at least
I had
It's all worth it Alice