Barbie Tells Ken Why He's Sold Separately

Barbie Tells Ken Why He's Sold Separately


"There's a Ken because there's Barbie," she tells him.
Says, "Look at the numbers." Profit coddles
the Goddess of the Marketplace as she dispenses abuse
with sighs of weariness: Ayn Rand in plastic.

From a shelf, he's fed the view from the Mt. Rushmore
of Barbie-dom. Gets doll-nauseous. So what
if Rocket Tits is as famous as John D. Rockefeller
in Wall Street's pantheon of mercantile stars?

Ken's been sick of Barbie Millicent Roberts for years—
the wasp waist, the doll-dead eyes that haul
nothing to the surface, her lack of definable genitalia.
Less is never enough, however you brand it.

Soon he'll be danced out, palmed aloft, but just now
he wonders, Do children sitting in bright pools
of starspace know their joy to be a force like gravity?
It's the kids, not Glamour Puss, who set spinning

nebulae of fairground delight in the Universe by Mattel.
Ken Carson is next to rise to rough handling
that he may have to act out in soft-porn variation, later,
in Malibu Barbie's canopy bed with the ruffle.

If it stopped with being unclothed, inspected, in that slow
downward drift toward neglect, then fine. Terrific.
At least that might remind him of Pleasure, faux-sex dreams
passed from sibling to sibling as adolescent mimed

Hollywood-fake kisses or climaxes glimpsed on Showtime.
They rise now to swing in small fists, squeezed
into the brightly human playhouses of Childhood or
swept along, one in each hand. Nearly a couple.


Copyright (c) 2011 Roy Bentley.
All rights reserved.

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[blechhh666]

We played dolls as a child.

Should have seen what GI Joe did to the bitch.

Who knew Barbie liked it rough?

[twohawksfucking]

@blechhh666 We all like it rough, us 'Mericans. We must. Hell, look what we dish out, what we take as our due.

Best to you,

Roy

[DragonYearJoji]

Eve before Adam

[twohawksfucking]

@DragonYearJoji Exactly--hey, I enjoyed your video about the hustle-bustle of Tokyo. Nice stuff....

Roy

[TheraminTrees]

It's quite a feat to bring something new to these icons — and you've done it twice. Wonderful pieces.

[twohawksfucking]

@TheraminTrees Awfully nice of you to say so. The first Barbie doll I ever saw was my neighbor's, in Kettering, Ohio, and it stuck with me. My thanks would have to extend to Beth Vines: for letting me see what all the fuss was about... (and then teaching me to ride a bicycle!) And my thanks to you for taking time with this work of mine.

Roy

[twohawksfucking]

@tinySpectacle Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Oh, yeah... Whodda genius?!! (Kidding.) But my thanks for those very kind words. Especially since this poem has been thrown back at me for over a year now! Go figure.

[tinySpectacle]

So many well-crafted, mind bending lines in here that I've found myself pausing this over and over so my mind can catch up with the genius.

[twohawksfucking]

@andrewnorris2 I never know which ones folks will like. Always interesting to hear which ones over others... I love them--the poems I write--the way I love, too easily and too soon! And usually for all the wrong reasons.

Best,

Roy

[andrewnorris2]

The title alone is enough to favourite this one, the poem itself ensures that I do!