Barbie Works on Her Communication Skills
To Sarah Strype and Lily Pigott for Truth Be Told,
their Barbie-inspired Ensemble show (Guelph University, 2016)
"You can’t play chess in a cesspool,
there’s never enough light, duh!"
"No, you wouldn’t date Madonna
Louise
Ciccone. She has bad teeth!"
"You shouldn’t eat after 6 pm unless your bathroom scale
is a copper fall leaf carefully pressed
in an encyclopedic dictionary."
She’d like to also work on her smile
but it’s been previously
frozen like smoked salmon.
© Diana Manole