PAPER DOLLS

paper dolls—
dolls made of tin.
wafer thin
hallowed halls
made of onion skin.

sour grapes,
headaches,
tears on the chin.

knee scrapes,
heartaches,
scars on the skin.

fastball, u-haul.
bad grace, saving face,
crimson red lambskin

divisive, decisive.

jet lagged, windbag,
politician, kingpin.

windblown windows.
ragtag baggage.
a dust bin of clothes pins
and a hollow mannequin.

horizontal, continental.
ice pick lipstick.
tinctures that puncture
your chagrin.

lemonade, big parade.
bushwacker, firecracker.
pretty painted plastic dolls.
wide-eyed, tongue-tied,
constantly restrained
and sufficiently contained.

 
brains scattered.
doesn’t matter
to the sleeping

and insane.