-What's In The Teacup?-

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Tick-tock.

Tickety-tock.

"Let's kill time."

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She wishes she had said what she meant.

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Tick-tock.

Tickety-tock-tock.

Five o' clock

That still hasn't changed.

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She would hate to be impolite,

but the tea is quite a fright.

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"Just watery catsup, Alice," she tells herself.

"A little now and a little then

shan't give my stomach quite the spin."

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Her vain wish

as she raises cup from dish,

is that she shan't be asked

to replenish their cups;

such a grisly task.

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Tick-tock.

Tickety-tickety-tock.

Five o' clock again.

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"Drink up, drink up!

Be of good cheer!

A little more, Alice?"

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"No, no thank you.

So kind of you to think of me,

but my cup's as full as can be."

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"Well MINE is a bit empty," Hatter says.

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She watches,

Eyes of corn silk blue round like saucers

as the fatal shimmer of steel cuts the air.

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Tick-tock.

Tickety-tickety-tock.

Oh, WHATEVER could be in that teacup?!