#madhatter
I danced around the willow tree,
creating cloud shapes from my fantasy.
When a white rabbit brushes past my ankle,
he carried a gold watch—odd—it clinked as he ran.
“I’m late! I’m late! for a very important date!” he shrieked.
I laughed, a rabbit? a gold watch? How absurd.
He saw me, pausing like I’d ruined the script, and bolted away into a hole.
And I followed, because what else do you do when curiosity sings?
It was no hole indeed, a cassette channel surfing.
The fall was painless, oddly confusing.
Time bent sideways, logic’s refusing.
Clocks—just like the rabbit’s—ticking too loud.
Just like my brain.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
Which timezone, or timeline? Maybe a countdown. Who knows.
Mirrors bloomed in the dark like wildflowers,
All I could see was versions of me,
in colors, in patterns, inside out, outside in.
Each mirror shattered when I stared too long.
Each shatter revealed a door with different dates, like an apartment number.
I observed my reflection—finally, a normal mirror.
But her eyes turned blood red, the glass breaking into laughter.
Another door. I stepped through anyway, into the complex world that I am.
The ground was a chessboard. The pieces were off.
Pawns as people I’ve met. The queen is humming a melody only I know.
The sky was a sunset of words of art I’d scribble.
Spelling names I’d long forgotten.
Seconds felt like minutes, minutes like hours.
Alas, I met the rabbit after an eternity.
He was still in the late panic, “late for what?” I pressed.
His ears bent like a curtain, stepping sideways,
There she was, the queen of hearts, waiting for me.
her smile too wide, too eerie. “There you are!’ she exclaimed.
Teapots and teacups floating, with wings of butterflies.
An odd teacup met me. The tea with the glitter of the galaxies.
“Drink.” She mouthed. Her eyes held a sharp glimmer.
I couldn’t determine if it was an offer or a command.
Instead of sugar, it was stardust.
And for the tea, the shimmer called, like a hymn.
Soul-glitter.
Thick like my blood.
Bright as my marrow.
It was me, reduced to a cup.
The gears in my brain shifted, just like the rabbit’s clock.
Perhaps, to know myself.
I must swallow myself whole.
Jan 8
Jan 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM UTC
I am the Hatter who is mad, they say.
Gone around the bend in every way.
A loon of the sorts who adores riddles and tea,
drowning in a land of ecstasy.
Come with me now! And please don’t fret!
I’ll show you wonders you will never forget!
I’ll show you heaven, hell, and everything in between,
the moon, stars, spiraling galaxies!
A magical realm where nothing is what it seems,
rabbits in waistcoats and a vicious red queen.
My home has an abundance of enchanted food and drink;
when consumed it could make you grow tall or shrink.
I am the mascot of this terrain.
Everyone knows me by my name.
So, let’s go and take my hand.
To a place that Alice called Wonderland!
Oct 18, 2020
Oct 18, 2020 at 5:57 PM UTC
I found myself in wonderland,
a false fairytale to be exact,
i think i have lost my mind,
but i hope i get back.
I fell in a rabbit hole endlessly,
my head is spinning vigorously,
i think i am going crazy,
so i ran and ran carelessly.
Today i met the hatter,
laughing over some matter,
out of the blue he gave me a reminder,
that this dream was a killer.
Confused from the warning,
i woke up from dreaming,
i held my hands when it started trembling,
for the things i don't remember doing.
Mar 2, 2019
Mar 2, 2019 at 11:55 PM UTC
Out of mind, out of sight
This stories far from over
And the endings mine to make
Round and round you shall go
In Wonderland you shall be
I am as mad as a hatter
Or by those who no me
I am the Mad Hatter
Ask yourself
What if it was different....
What if the hatter had a secret
What if the hatter was evil
No one would see it comin'
He'd be the unlikely foe
How different would it have been
Lurking from shadows
The fixed piece on the board
Bit by bit the world
Will tremble
Alice and friends be puppets
All the world a stage
Darker and darker
The plot thickens
Till he reveals
He's true self
Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 12:59 AM UTC
I hate this life so very much. The dope... Just never enough. No matter what I do. No matter where I go. I feel alone. I am unknown. There is no where's for me to roam. This drug is toxic. The chemicals hypnotic. My teeth grinding. Turned to powdered slots. As each moment passes the next, it's all just a big fuckking blur. The time has all past. And the mad hatter has finally crashed. There has never been a better time then this! Where there's nothing here that's even left. Everybody has stopped believin in what was gunna leave them next. The possibilities were never ever even really their!! So left behind. There is no more time.
Aug 21, 2016
Aug 21, 2016 at 3:03 AM UTC
I want to run away to wonderland,
away from these tough times I'd never planned.
Away to find my own Cheshire cat smile,
and to forget all my troubles for a little while.
To smell the perfume of roses as I run through the wood,
falling through the rabbit hole as elegantly as I should.
To have tea parties while being kissed by the sun
with a touch of warmth and a promise of more fun.
I wish to become as lost as Alice in the forest
and to find the madness the Hatter possessed, if I'm honest.
And once I am in wonderland
I'll stay forever, just as I'd planned.
May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 8:57 AM UTC
You would tell me that Humpty Dumpty was well put together
if only you'd see the pieces of my life torn apart, hanging by a thin tether;
and you'd think to yourself that the Mad Hatter was very much sane,
if only you'd see the dark crevices and lunacy within my own brain.
Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 5:46 PM UTC
I’ve gone insane.
It's nothing new.
Been down this road a time or two.
But this time I've made a decision
About the health of my cognition:
I'm staying here!
No round trip!
For why would I when there is this?
A world exactly as I need it.
Everything just as I see it.
Reality made me contort
To rules and norms and other sorts.
I've bruised my limbs,
Threw out my back,
My everything is out of whack.
I'm done I tell you!
Through with it!
That box, that there, I cannot fit!
And in the past you have always
Coaxed me back to your mores.
And I would whine and ***** and moan.
Throw a tantrum. You would groan,
And you would say I must behave:
"Proper people don't act this way!"
I don't doubt this:
Your forced fed fodder,
But I have no interest in being "proper."
So I’ve gone insane.
And I’m staying!
Not because it's easy.
Not because I’m lazy.
But because, going back?
Well, that would just be crazy!
Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 8:58 PM UTC
To define him is a difficult challenge
To impersonate him is a hard task too
But who is this man with a hat on his head?
It seems like everyone has no clue.
It is the Hatter!
The most mad of all
He is also a type of friend that you can call
You can call when you fall, and no longer can crawl
But be careful!
You might don't want to see him go wild at the hall.
What was the hatter with him?
Oh yeah, he's mad!
It is the effect of high mercury
Oh, poor dear lad!
He very much love tea parties
Along with his friends including Alice
He's the weirdest man that you'll ever meet
And he has this mad, crazy, wonderful treat.
Because his madness has no end
He may look like he can harm
But don't worry, my friend,
That is just the attitude of his charm.
Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 1:57 AM UTC
My chest compressed, I can not breath
And everything around me bleeds
Trapped in the rabbit hole
Where no one's supposed to go
I think me and the Mad Hatter will get along splendidly
We climbed into the tea *** boat and sail the crystal sea
And dine upon the walrus hide
We just can not be denied
Oh what fun we had sunning on the shore
All the clams gather round us,we was so adored
Oh look over yonder there is a door
Well Mad Hatter I've got to go but I shall be back
If I have to put that rabbit in a sack
To make him bring me to this wonderful place that I adore
The Mad Hatter looked at me sadly, don't open up that door
Your being silly I won't stay gone long
But something was very wrong
I opened it quickly
And what I saw made me sickly
For behide that forbidden door
In a pool of my own blood I was lying on the floor
Jan 31, 2016
Jan 31, 2016 at 2:57 PM UTC
I’m no Alice in Wonderland,
But I am more like the Cheshire Cat,
They say I am more deranged
Than the Mad Hatter’s hat,
They say I can be quite rude
Like the Queen of Hearts
And like the March Hare
I sometimes nervously fall apart,
I’m no caterpillar
Blowing smoke rings
But I might as well be same to them all,
Because I’m madly curious about things.
Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 7:37 PM UTC
My words have just been ramblin',
I left the rhyming state of mind.
The ace of spades is gamblin',
but the rabbit's now on time.
Elevator going down,
catching buses to the sound.
How do I know that I am late?
Time exists in spite of fate.
We're racing, now, against the clock
in circles, 'round the spokes.
I've forgotten how the ticking tocks,
for the gears have been long broke.
Darlin', won't you take my hand?
They're try'na pull you under and
together we can leave this land,
but you must know just where you stand.
-
This shortcut leads to trouble,
but you'll get there on the double.
Bad ideas, I've had a couple;
my shattered thoughts within the rubble.
Broken fragments of my mind,
my fate's aligning just in time.
To the past, I'm disinclined;
looking down an uphill climb.
-
You're sending me a message
about the faithfulness of love;
the white rabbit left me breathless,
I still don't know what you speak of.
"I chose you, please choose me, too?"
I'm running, but I don't know what to.
I've fallen down the rabbit's hole,
into a world without console.
Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 6:02 PM UTC