Ice-Cold Neverland Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Alice tried to converse with Peter Pan in Neverland
but the attempt's doomed and rejected out of hand,
all Alice said is tainted by the contempt with which
a peppery-tongued Duchess denigrated everything
in Wonderland: You're just as stupid and worthless
as Tom Thumb, the youngest brother fighting wind-
mills, Peter Pan accused a hapless Alice, whereas

He accused Tom Thumb of stupidity on the Internet
Alice had praised the book Tom had published and
when Alice praised Peter's writing he scorned her
words as worthless since she had dallied with the
enemy Tom Thumb, Alice told Peter I don't read
night and day any more, I used to seek meaning
now that I've found it, I read for pleasure: to find

Encouragement and refine views about infinity -
Peter said Alice is insipid & he doesn't believe
a word she says - I cannot be friends with him,
Alice confessed, he treats me just like a forlorn
5-year old without the right to usurp the love &
nourishment that should have all been his & my
attempt to support Tom Thumb's windmill fights

Makes me seem stupid in his contemptuous eyes,
but his cynical universe within ice-cold Neverland
is no longer mine, now I live in Wonderland with th'
Lord & Master of the Crocodile Castle - & I need no
longer fight for survival against a cynical Peter Pan
whose disdain for Cinderella-Grandma-Alice & the
Queen-of-Hearts & Conan the Barbarian, enabled
him to call himself a Mighty Lord so very elevated

Far beyond his beginning among the most ignoble,
plebeian relations imaginable…