Alice

by Peter Taylor


When I fell down the hole,
I forgot how easy it is
to go from who you are
to who you are, mad.

You can do it, too.
Just fall down a hole and forget.
The hole will take care of the rest.

Honest.

Peter Taylor lives in Canada and has published TrainerAphorismsThe Masons, and First Epistle to Dr. Torr. His poems have appeared in Canadian Family PhysicianCanadian Author & Bookman, DescantFreeXpresSion AustraliaGrainHarvestOpen MindsPoetry Australia, and Waves and have been anthologized in The Best of Grain and We Stand on GuardAntietam: A Verse Play was an award winner in the 2010 War Poetry Contest in Northampton, Massachusetts.