ALICE MATTER, MAD AS A HATTER, SAID, ”ALL HAIL THE DARK QUEEN”

Barging down the river a mile

I once met a crocodile

Whose smile

I didn’t really care for

I asked my maid in waiting

If she’d do a little baiting

And have the ax man

Do away with that which I abhor

Now I beam a benign smile

It’s pure pleasure there’s no guile

Believe me

I love my shoes, my clutch, and the beautiful Nile

                                                                            
                                                                                          ~ Sonali

Illustration - Arab Republic of Egypt, the coin of fifty piastres, shows the queen Cleopatra