a five-year-old girl
is weeping
she has never been
to Rome
she spent her five
years sleeping
she has never left
her home
she doesn’t have a
doctorate
she doesn’t ride
a hog
she doesn’t have
a diamond
she hasn’t kissed
a frog
five candles melt
upon her cake
she has nothing to
show for it
she’s contemplating
suicide
her dolly whispers
“go for it”