Some girls made brownies in their toy ovens. I baked little women. Every day in the back room, Full House, Step by Step, Family Matters, me and my army of dolls. My trays could make six women at a time. [To make a plastic woman: 1. drip eye and lip dye into grooves of the metal tray. 2. Fill body with flesh color (peach available now; more colors coming soon). 3. Choose brown, yellow, or red, cipher hair dye into the depressions of her squared bob. 4. Insert silicon handled tray into oven. Bake women until mom shouts about burnt plastic smell. 5. Using other trays, cook separately the sarongs, sneakers, skirts and shirts to wrap around your women.] How I loved the peel of them from metal, their cling to those round grooves. If you want to bake a woman, be careful. Pull her out too quick and an eye could tear. Too slow and she may mangle. Just remember, no matter how many plastic women you have made, they never stand unless propped.
09 April, 2012
NaPoMo Day 6 Poem
One touched up, the other catch-ups coming soon.
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So I had no idea this was a real toy; Donna told me about it last night.
I think with some revision, this could be excellent commentary on misogyny, etc. I love the creepiness of it.
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