Crippled Mannequins and the Women Who Love Them!

"idealistic fabricant theory"

Mannequins
Scare me with their shenannigans.
Department store bulbs warming their little plastic souls
--But not mine.
Someone's got to keep their head on the straight and narrow
Else they'll have their limbs carted off
In a maintenance wheelbarrow.

In full retreat from the repulsive jaws
Of a retail profit-making frenzy,
Alas, I happened upon another mannequin lair:
Grotesque figurines flaunting insidious human desires
Extending their unfriendly arms in suspicious indifference
Merely content to be puppets of ubiquitous corporate domination,
And exhibitionistic conspirators of silence
Contractually harvested for the marketing
Of social acceptance and conformity
To the weak-minded and holistically defeated
At thirty percent off the regular price.

Well, that sounds like a deal,
Faustus.

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