gershon hepner - before breakfast

Believing six things to be wrong
before our breakfast has been made
occurs when coffee isn’t strong
and toast is lacking marmalade.
Opinions wrongly circulated
may be endured by brains refreshed
by coffee freshly percolated,
and toast with marmalade that’s echt.

Alice laughed: “There's no use trying, ” she said; “one can't believe impossible things.”
”I daresay you haven't had much practice, ” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Alice in Wonderland.

2/9/06

gershon hepner

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