A Half-Baked Nursery Rhyme

Cake under your pillow, you'll dream of your groom

A bite of some cake, you're too big for the room

Let them eat cake when they haven't the bread

Say the wrong thing and it's off with your head

A slice with the baby, you bring the next cake

Poor Gretel was put in an oven to bake

You can't have your cake and then eat it too
Be a sweet little girl, and they will eat you!

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Kerry's Wednesday Challenge, Magical Realism

Alice in Migraine Land

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The Queen of Hearts

has baked some tarts

but they had MSG

now Alice has a migraine

and can't hold down her tea.

Her head feels like a blimp now

her legs are made of lead

There's pounding in her ears and

Alice wants to go to bed!

The caterpillar's smoking

is making Alice queasy

If pain vanished like Cheshire Cats

then life would be so easy!

One potion makes her larger

One potion makes her small

but Alice knows the awful truth-

There is no cure at all.

submitted for Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Unfairy Tales