My Matty Mattel Talking Doll

While meditating earlier today,
a flashback leapt
clear for me to assay,
those ever receding

early boyhood daze,
now subsumed within fifty,
plus nine shades of gray
blissfully innocent naivety,

(though blessed) no way
would, aye desire to turn back
the hands of father time (hypothetically),
where unstructured play

regularly with older sister
(thirteen plus months
my senior) predominantly
slicing, sliding, and slipping

stockinged feet skittering
across slippery basement floor,
this then soul full
skinny thing bellowed hooray.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
"I'm Matty Mattel; I got hurt;
Can you go out?"
Those words uttered
by the very first

pull-string talking doll
Mattel did tout
circa nineteen sixty
revolutionizing the birth

of quasi simulated (lifelike) toys,
and made of common
materials found scout
ting around the house simply comprising

hard vinyl (i.e. pseudo
plaster of Paris) head he did flout
with remaining body
stuffed with padding,

a definite no
no (chew toy) when Fido about.
Actually that pooch,
would be Georgie to you,

(a hybrid Boxer Dalmatian)
with docked tail
my young parents acquired,
when as a newborn,

aye did inconsolably wail
though recollection of such memory
fifty nine years ago tis of no avail
yet, a resumption of meditation,

sans lightness of being
(analogous trancelike state),
that doth prevail
replaying silent film preceding,

when psyche seem so frail
plummeting into emotional abyss
the nadir i.e. anorexia nervosa
pleading return to nostalgic boyhood
decrying change hide didst bewail!