Its Lyrical Sighs

Alice read East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon,

a girl married a bear who changed into a prince at night,

when she saw the prince she fell in love at first sight, but

he declared bitterly if she had waited a year he would

 

Have been freed from a curse, now he must return to a

troll princess, the moral is; here Alice faltered confused,

not knowing what the moral could be - never marry a

bear for a prince, never drink things so bitter it changes 

 

You into a troll princess or a bear, that way there lies

perdition and ruin to your soul - with this dubious moral

intact Alice accosts Sir William Topaz McGonagall,

moralist extraordinaire: There is so much to analyse

 

In this theme, dear Poet Laureate, I shall wait till you

stop glaring with love-beaming eyes, then we can start 

unraveling this and make it into a play - Alice curtsies

to the deeply moral Gonagall and takes his hand in

 

Deep sympathy with his tendency to vanish into a

frenzy of feverish lines which tires him immensely -

but brings people such respite from their pain and

suffering with its lyrical sighs….