Cheshire Cat Monologue May 2026

Go ahead. Try it in the mirror. Let your lips curl. Let your eyes go wide and empty. Say the words slowly. And then, before you finish the last sentence… leave. Let the smile linger. That is where the magic lives.

"Ah. You’ve arrived. I was beginning to think you’d taken the wrong turning. Or the right one. They’re the same thing here, you know. Mostly. Cheshire Cat Monologue

It isn't a speech. It is a vanishing act performed with words. Go ahead

(Touches the corner of his mouth, then vanishes. A pause. Then only the smile remains in the darkness.) Let your eyes go wide and empty

No, no. You jumped. You just don’t remember.

So. Will you stay? Will you run? Will you argue with a flower? Will you weep because a flamingo won’t hold still? It doesn’t matter. I’ll be watching. Not because I care about the ending—endings are so terminal —but because I love the moment just before the ending. The pause. The doubt. The grin before the vanish.