10 Apr 2005, 2:23am
Writing
by David


“traveller”

(”the eyewitness”)

ballerina dollhouse door
can you find me (find me)      upstairs
in the pink attic

with its rocking horse,
a plastic tub I sit inside
waiting

can you see me (see me)      in the tub
made of pink and white
bubblegum

Barbie is home now
delirious just tried to cover
my leg up

with a rubber band but
Oh lord I kissed a snake
today, I did

not thinking
it would bite me,
No No No Barbie No

She said if I drank this
my world
would stop spinning

but then it hasn’t
happened to me yet,
still the motor

decides,
the hinge doesn’t work
the latch is afraid

how do we get
the door back,
back open

and that
with the light
falling      out of the highway?