Run Alice Run!

Run Alice Run, The Rabbit Hole is Open!

I opened the door and stepped
oh so quietly outside
to watch the hummingbirds
in their evening glide.

I started to sit down and found
a lizard watching me!

I looked around and saw
a second curious gecko
rolling his eyes toward mine
and raising his hand to beckon.

“Aye, mate!” the gecko heckled,
“What are you doin’ ‘ere?”

And then a third slithered over,
hopping from a nearby ledge,
landing on the conference table
right at the very edge.

Somehow I’d sort of teleported
to another place and time!

Colored charts and graphs
hung upon the papered walls
and a meeting was in progress…
“Listen up now! Listen all!”

“Our sales are off the scales,”
a bespectacled gecko said.

“Car insurance profits
have never been so high!”
he laughed, waving his GEICO badge,
“And blokes, that ain’t no lie!”

“Oh pardon me. You’re busy I see
so I’ll just close the door.”

And as I turned away
I heard a buzzing by my ear
and felt a breeze from tiny wings
My hummingbirds were here!

“What a team! They really seem
to believe their very own hype!”

Said my ruby-throated rescuer
as he guided me back home.
“I’m gonna stop watching TV
if that’s all that’s being shown!”