~alice~ Comments

The name ALICE immediately brought Lewis Carroll's character to mind but she was an INNOCENT PLAYER and this one is definitely NOT. THIS Alice has accumulated a lot of bad karma. I like the last three stanzas which take us away from Alice as killer by emphasizing a three-fold role - WANDER/WONDER/MEANDER. It's too early to say an Alice doing these three things is saveable but at least as the last line has it - her being has acquired meaning whereas before her violence was the worst kind - unprovoked and unfocused.

The girl had a golden street gun She sounds like she was your little slice of heroin, a girl who is more then a girl, but the untapped potential of the love within your heart. I think we all got our Alice somewhere, I've left mine in the closet.