Oddlands Magazine: The Rape of Expectation by Sabrina Naples
I remember stripping my first Barbie doll from its box–
and being disappointed.
Those were potato chip ears,
Nothing sharp, or elfin
On a face lacking alligator pupils, painted with 2-D,
Revlon eyes.
Boring berry lips,
Vaseline slick teeth
(fangless)
A smooth base-board back
Centimeter-sunken spine
(wingless)
And ten molded fingers,
(clawless, hairless)
One industry’s dark imagination:
soulless.
