Doll Shop Ode

Assume you locate doll by sound, not clothes mess or books, TV screaming, pillow fall. Find vicinity by cries of play, like fire engines chug or mooch, "I think I can," a thousand times, but please remain calm. Do not grab. There is trouble in that place.

When doll sheds shoes, which is not too hard, put on back. Hands, feet will move. Eye contact doll, they love to taunt that way. Smile but do not coo, that will set doll off. Locate shoe, socks under mess. Voice doll's name: "Doll Dolly Doll!" Tell not to count to twenty. Do not expect much by ten. Doll will squirm. Do not count fast. By ten, one sock appears on foot 'mid squawks of wrong. Thrown by the count tell doll repeat, but sneak other as doll boasts. At thirteen doll is winding down, put one shoe on so doll can run, even talk, the other may come late.

Ready doll transport. Dolls get tired, fall asleep. If more than one you have to carry (which we hope you have at least three). Unconscious, dolls will rest. Give nice hug and tell them bye. That is what dolls love.

Dolphy of the Coasts

Just when we thought the greensward full Lasty was called to the coast which fled downsea in ships, to train green Dolphy for the coming dives, hunts and jumps. That big heart fellow had a need of a man, to hone the bill, bounce the dolphin ball, whistle and tweet. Back and forth he goes, a beauty to behold.

Lasty last conversed the dolls who said mama, mama end to end, when boy doll Nick, who also said drink, in the midst of three grown athletes jumped sofa to table to chair, lept floors then hid in momma's arms. He cried "mama, mama" when it came for shots or when zookeepers put back on his clothes like chicken feathers on a possible cow. Lasty's dolphins were black and blue

they worked so hard to get a point. Would the marine layer clear?

In the pattern of the dust when lion and dolphin lay down to rest where before they leapt, and tucked fins at sea, the further out then in they crept, a string wound tight in day from ceramic boxes, walls and floors inset with jewels, available for a song when you lie down.