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Barbies

We tried each other on

New best friends

Playing “Barbie” in our sixties.

A task not for the faint hearted.

She had gone on vacation summer 1965

Never returning [...]

We had a tea party, you and I

Yesterday, when March was cold.

We were three or four again

Five or six or seven.

Changed the world

[...]

We sat and talked

deep into the night

and told each other secrets

saved only for those

special friends…

…one shares a lifetime with

in less than an hour.

Where do they come from

all these feelings?

Talking both at once

yet, hearing every word.

Taking in only enough air

to keep breathing, and

start [...]