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If I Didn’t Have Dollies

Elizabeth Harper

If I didn’t have
dollies
I would have to
bring people home
and kill them
and stuff them
so that I could
hold them
anytime
I wanted.
They would be mine
always.
And never
could they leave.
I would keep them
on the couch
and carry them
to bed
and touch them
anywhere
I wanted and
they would be
mine mine mine.

So the next time
you feel
like ridiculing
someone
for collecting
dolls,
or anything
for that matter,
just remember
the lives
that are saved
when things
are collected
rather than
human bodies.

 

Previously published in PANK 6

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