- Bleh. Forced motivation. You can thank Gabbe aka The Firefly Meteor Shower for the update, though it was probably not as soon as she wanted. Hmph.
- Oh, plus. Lynn, Erin. What is your account name because I want to read your stuff.
- Pinocchio.
xxxi. dollface
girls with mothers, the real ones
mothers who bake pies and attend soccer games and nag and are around too much
or mothers who are never there and make do with pretend post-its
and I'm sorry I won't make it honeys
girls with mothers, real mothers,
they get dolls
dolls and cooking sets and princess dresses,
but really, what they get are porcelain dolls
fancy dresses and elaborate curls
porcelain dolls who are never allowed out of their boxes because
they might be broken.
girls with real mothers have dusty dolls
that are never allowed of their boxes
these dusty dolls stare through their cellophane wrapped worlds
with blank eyes and blank faces and a longing
to be real.
real girls with real mothers have dolls that are never played with
for fear they might be broken.
some dolls are handmade broken
they stare at the world they will never be allowed to be a part of
and they nurse their tarnished skin and bruised dreams
they long and long, they wish away their perfect ivory skin and their safe boxes
to be real girls.
but see, what these dolls don't realize is
that sometimes the real girls with real mothers
are broken too.
and sometimes, the real girls with real mothers
don't have mothers
and they're broken
and they aren't even real.
but we're talking about dolls.
right?