A lot of unclear in unusual country, You’ll get confused and even get lost, Horripilation appears on the back If you imagine what might here happen. Say, there’s trench and you have to spring Will you get scared or make a bold jump? Ha? Uh... That’s, friend, the way The one deal you take can make the whole point Good and evil in Wonderland - as elsewhere they occur, But only here they still live on opposite coasts. The very different stories, they wander on those roads And live imaginations run there on thin feet. This story we’ll start, with one of the puzzles, So even Alice would hardly respond, What is remained from fairy tale then, After it was wisely told before us? Where, for example, the magical horn? The Fairy Godmother, where she did fly Ha? Uh... That’s, friend, the way The one deal you take can make the whole point They don’t disappear, they don’t get dissolved The told before us stories well flashing in the dream In magical one country, in Wonderland they move, We certainly will meet them in this fabolous land... And as a final, I’d like to be known To be recognized by my style of narration I’ll be a bird in a magical land - Under given by kids, the "Dodo Bird" name. So even Alice will not find a clue, How I’ll get in the bird transformation Ha? Uh... That’s, friend, the way The one deal you take can make the whole point So not such only oddities in Wonderland are happened There’re no any borderlines or needs swim, run or fly - The getting there isn’t difficult, there’s no forbiddance You’ll find herself in here easy just don’t stop your dreams
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... The tale is not cutting just by its end Recall, you were asked at very beginning What is remained from fairy tale then, After it was wisely told before us? Maybe not everything, even eating the pie, Our Alice could see in a dream. Ha? Uh... That’s, friend, the way The one deal you take can make the whole point And if someone would try, to enter again suddenly In Wonderland fabolous in beautiful good sleep - That even fact imaginable, that only is appeared Will find in its mysterious and magical one land.
© Boris K’zorin. Translation, 2014