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Children's Toys

CHILDREN’S TOYS do dolls have a soul? glassy-eyed she stares at me ~ hauntingly gothic ~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: shall i play the tape? played backwards the devil speaks ~ douse with holy oil ~ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: vinyl spins around “mares eat oats and does eat oats” ~ sounds nonsensical ~ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: speaking to the dead? fingers slide from a to z ~ don’t play with matches ~ Kim Rodrigues © 2017

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Date: 3/26/2017 4:12:00 PM
oooh, eerie. The mares eats oats I only learned they were actually saying about ten years ago!!
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 3/26/2017 5:03:00 PM
I know, right! I had a 45 or 78 that played the song and thought it was a nonsense song! LOL

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