Barbie always looks
happy about it.
Barbie’s lipstick
never smudges.
She’s a sentimental fool
for a plastic man
with no genitals.
She’s not nostalgic
about Ken’s helmet hair
molded in China.
Barbie’s tight torso
has no internal organs,
no blood, no veins.
If your little brother
cuts her hair, it doesn’t
grow back like a weed.
Barbie’s rubber-feeling legs irritate
those who try her pants
on her pale scissors.
The threads can definitely wait
for naked Barbie to get it together.
We should question Barbie’s
vacant stare like the inside of a wall.
She’s in her Barbie pink car driving nowhere,
picking up no one.
Sarah Lilius is the author of four chapbooks, including GIRL (dancing girl press, 2017), and Thirsty Bones (Blood Pudding Press, 2017). Her work can be found in Luna Luna Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Fourteen Hills. She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband and two sons. Her website is sarahlilius.com.
