Aladdin in the levels
There was a lad who lived near the levels. This lad one day
Decided the revels had been let out on his virginia scout. So he climbed
Down the vines and onto the peat swamp
The long lines of peat excavations lay before him
Like the grave mounds of great leviathons or sea monsters from the deep
And as he wandered over them, his tired mind did sleep
And he had to lie down for some rest
Shortly after doing this atop a mass grave of peat
He dreamt he was riding upon a whales back through the sea
And the blow hole was spout water and air
Suddenly what he knew was he must go down there
And so he did, he just slid down like a spiral stair
Without the steps
and finally he landed in the whale's mouth
Well it was not much more friendly a place than before
It was damp and a little cold,
But in the corner of the cavenous chamber he saw a lamp
It was golden and shining
And so he picked it up.
A little dim patch caused his reflection to be obscured
And so he rubbed it clean
And as he did a Genie appeared
In a puff of smoke and spin
The Genie float high above and then leaned in
Are you Aladdin?
Yes said the boy in answer to him
Well come now make a wish
And I will grant it
Aladdin thought, but spent too long for in that moment
The Whale sneezed and both were thrown out onto the rolling seas
With that the boy awoke from his sleep
And found himself nestled into a groove in the peat
Just below him some peat workers were chattin
Lucky for Aladdin he was hidden out of sight, and
Then he saw near where he lay, a little hole made by a rabbit he would say
So he quietly crawled over and peered in
Aladdin he heard his name echo
Somewhere within
And drawn in further he leant and leant and leant until
Finally he fell head first down the peat well
If you have ever walked in peat you will know this is no light thing and
That to fall in a sink hole can mean the death of you
So Aladdin was by now beginning to panic
He was head first in a tunnel
and he could see a rabbit but the more he tried to twist and free himself
The further down he slid until darkness seemed to overcome him
And finally he closed his eye lids
With a twitch of his nose he sneezed and awoke
He could see a little rabbit who seemed to laugh at a joke
And down in this chamber hidden deep under ground
He was stuck in the upper quarter of the ceiling of the burrow
Somehow he freed and arm and then pulled on a root
And this action brought him down without harm
But with a thump
The rabbits scattered then meekly peaked their heads out
Where am I he thought?
Am I under the swamp?
The chamber was bigg enough for him to crawl along
On his hands and knees and a strange glowing light of green
glowed from underneath the trees - their roots held some
Algae or perhaps laces of fungi
That glowed iridescent in the dark
Suddenly a glow worm spun down and said
Hello Aladdin, my name's spark
Spark showed Aladdin the way through the cave system
And into and underground wonderland
He could see sticking out of all the walls
lots of artefacts of ancient archaeology
There were 16th century pistols used by highway men, there were
Anglo-Saxon treasures of helmets and spears
There were Roman chariot wheels, and shields and old sandals
There were even some Roman Catholic candles
There were iron age devices and fires and stoves
And stone age pottery and glowing glass globes
There were Victorian furniture -tables and chairs
And medieval cannons and the skeletons of bears
And it was like a museum of preserved treasures of the past
But what caught Aladdin's eye was of course the last
A shining golden lamp that had something in it
So that when he gave it a tap somebody said stop it
And so he handled this lamp between his fingers
And began to polish its edges and peer under the lid
And finally he thought well thumb it, so he gave it a rub
With the rub spewed forth this ancient Genie
The Genius of the levels trapped in a bottle
Like a message he came out
