Wonderland - Version 2024

F2 The Mad Hatter

F2. "The Mad Hatter" – Forever stuck in time! Write a story (or short poem) where your character is always stuck at 3 p.m. (<1000 words or < 40 lines)

It’s time, it’s time, it’s time
What time? What’s time? That time?
Three post meridian that’s the time
Post meridian three? What’s the time?

Stuck there at one, two, three
Tell me where I should be.
Stuck here at three two one
Should I, would I, stay or run?

Run, stay, run, stay, run
Three becomes two become one
Free to go, free to stay, here is three
Three is here, here is three,
Nowhere to go but stay right here.
Stay here, be here, nothing to fear.

14 lines

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