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Is this all you are--

A blankly smiling, dull-eyed china doll?

Am I only a thoughtless child to you?

What if this "thoughtless child" played with her new toy?

She isn't very graceful yet, you know.

If she should drop you onto the hardwood of her bedroom floor,

would you live?

Would you crack at that heavily concealed seam,

broken but fixable?

Or would you entire fragile being shatter

into pieces for the toddler to put into her mouth?

Would that help the world?