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Of Love and Barbie Dolls

April 10, 2013
By brynrdskynrd GOLD, Columbia, Missouri
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"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." J.R.R. Tolkien

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You like your ladies
made of plastic
hot wax that's
melted into a disproportional form
nothing well-worn,
nothing lived in.
You like your ladies
thin and prim
and empty within,
a shallow existence
empty of persistence.
You like your ladies
pristine, clean of
any intelligent
thought, so
incompetent she
couldn't be anything
but innocuous but
really shes anything
but that on top of it.
You like your ladies
easy-peesy
lemon-squeezy
anything-i-please
so-long-as-it
feels-good-im-gone.
You like your ladies
conventionally beautiful,
conventionally pretentious,
a barbie doll exemplified,
personified and personalized,
all just for you.
You like your ladies
fake and half baked
so that with one shake
of her hips
you forgot about
me.

© Heather W., No., Brunswick, NJ

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brynrdskynrd GOLD said...
on Apr. 21 2013 at 12:30 am
brynrdskynrd GOLD, Columbia, Missouri
16 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." J.R.R. Tolkien

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thank you so much! your encouragement means the world to me!
brynrdskynrd GOLD said...
on Apr. 21 2013 at 12:29 am
brynrdskynrd GOLD, Columbia, Missouri
16 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." J.R.R. Tolkien

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this is the spoken word! its so so so much cooler when i present it, but i just had to get it out there! maybe ill read it aloud on monday, who knows? ;)
TargonTheDragon GOLD said...
on Apr. 19 2013 at 3:39 pm
TargonTheDragon GOLD, Ofallon, Missouri
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yup, totally agree with Candlelightwriter. absolutely wonderful!
candlelightwriter GOLD said...
on Apr. 19 2013 at 7:17 am
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Bravo. *starts the slow clap* Bravo. I feel like this is the spoken word you were referring to? Find a poetry slam and present this, woman!