Follow the White Rabbit

was written everywhere
across our grey city
of hunger

childish white
paint—innocent taste
of vulnerable letters

     on the dirty walls
on the billboards
     on the tree trunks
on the pavements
      on the blind glasses
of skyscrapers

none of us understood
what it meant but—
a protest? a joke? an ad?

until we saw
our girls of golden
holding hands
with white rabbit

headed men heading
into the river
singing—

rabbit, rabbit, rabbit-pie
come my ladies, come and buy
else your babies, they will cry

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Özge Lena
Picture Mészáros Zsuzsanna

Biography: Özge Lena is an internationally published poet whose work has appeared in The London Magazine, Modron Magazine, The Madrid Review, and in numerous magazines across multiple continents. Her ecological themed poetry earned Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and was shortlisted for Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, The Plough Poetry Prize, Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, and Black Cat Poetry Press Nature Prize. Özge’s poetry appears in many worldwide anthologies and was showcased at Barnes & Noble for Poetry Month.

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