Barbie

Beautiful Barbie
With long blonde hair
Pale pink skin
Waist impossibly thin
Perfectly supported plastic breasts
Made for play
Made for fantasy

Fantasy turned expectation

Burned Barbie
With crispy brittle hair
Skin turned black
Lips still parted gasping for air
Doused her in kerosene
As punishment for an unfulfilled dream
Frozen in a burnt plastic scream

An unexpectedly pain filled dream

Savage Barbie
Skin painted different colors
Hiding the burnt plastic flesh
Like a body art installation at Burning Man
Bold primary colors applied tribally
Some little feathers filling in lost hair
Pictures taken and shared virally

Barbie avenges her notional existence

Post Traumatic Stress Barbie
Painted colors now faded
Too brittle to play with
For fear she would break
Driven around the countryside by Ken
In the pink Barbie Motorhome
Looking for a Barbie Dream House that will never appear

Barbie cries herself to sleep in Ken's plastic embrace