Alice And Duchess [Rev]

A lost drunk, My Duchess declared the Lord and Master
of the Crocodile Castle, while HE divulged she was the
deluded wreck of a failed interior decorator; the Queen
of Hearts deigned them out of existence, while Conan -
the reformed Barbarian - said they were both irrelevant
given the hungry people forced to steal from his freezer
on the outside patio - and then Conan -

My dad lurched off to his room and my Duchess played
a keyboard with human wraiths wailing their lives away
while the Queen & I, Alice in Wonderland, couldn’t hold
a conversation given the level of noise; we went to the
Duchess’ Castle where I found the bed so soft I had to
sleep on the floor; - next day the Duchess drove me to
see the Queen in her liturgical phaeton

Where she again played those wailing voices, and when
Alice got home Scorpio said the Duchess’ largesse didn’t
impress him; my sis - Alice observed, is extremely remiss
in good manners - she ruined all conversation with those
wailing electronic banshees on the Queen’s keyboard; &
Alice didn’t know what to think: was she hearing the song
of the crying Gryphon

Or the irrational anger of the Duchess upon discovering
that the Duke kept her changeling child’s wedding plans
a secret, she didn’t know it was on public show; whatever
the cause, while Alice is sad for the Duchess who has to
live with a Wayward Duke, the Duchess laments on Alice
having to live with a Scorpion - preferring the honest

Scorpion to a brilliant, though fractious, Duke…