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China Doll Girl

China Doll Girllives on the shelf in the corner one two three down the third white shelf from the top sing song ching chong me talk in China Doll Girl talk baby girl talk Stop talking like that! mom says locked in my room mad dad and mom eat downstairs fried chicken meat potato sweets stop talking like that! China Doll Girl baby girl baby China girl talk

me hungry want to eat food fried potato chicken stripped meat gobble gobble crazy girl China Doll Girl didn’t eat since oatmeal’s house choppy oatmeal in a bowl no sugar n rotten teeth oatmeal lady says sugar makes the teeth in your head fall out one two three plunk in the bowl it’s not the sugar that makes the teeth fall out crazy oatmeal lady filling up the bowl

China Doll Girl got sent in the mail zoom from my aunt in another state who I haven’t seen in a hundred years a hundred years since I seen my aunt! she sent China Doll Girl to me once upon a time from a land called China far far away my aunt sent it in the mail from a far away land with a book about five Chinese brothers zoom

China Doll Girl has red shiny pants n a green n white checker coat n little fingers holding a little basket n a straw hat on her head like a lampshade pulled out of oatmeal n rinsed off n stuck on her head China Doll Girl has squinty eyes like mother says squinty China girl eyes are so life like mom says those squinty squinty eyes

A hat! stuck on her head!

China Doll Girl has a pointy straw hat

n her head never gets cracked

spacked spat on because of that hat spat

You hungry crazy girl China Doll Girl yells across the room from on top of her shelf China Doll Girl jumps off the shelf onto my bed n whispers in my ear me China Doll Girl me talk in your head now I sneak downstairs spy on parents for you oh kay? I nod to the China Doll Girl sitting on my pillow Okay I say to the China Doll Girl who whispers in my ear Parents very bad don’t listen to very bad parents! very bad parents! n she runs down the stairs to spy on very bad parents but not before I take a jelly bean out of my old Easter basket hid under my bed a red jelly bean n I put it in her basket perfect fit! it’s a perfect fit! China Doll Girl runs off in her coat n hat carrying a red jelly bean to spy on very bad parents very bad! sitting on the couch watching TV

China Doll Girl sneaks down the stairs the creaky creaky stairs behind the couch quiet as a mouse she sneaks in her sneaky China Doll Girl way squinty squinty eyes China Doll Girl sneaks behind those very bad parents watching TV she looks over their shoulders n sees the TV n puts her basket down n sneaky China Doll Girl reaches out her sneaky little fingers to choke the very bad parents sitting on the couch

after sneaky China Doll Girl chokes those parents n they can’t breathe she picks up her basket n runs to the kitchen n gets a ham hock from the refrigerator n puts it in her basket n brings it upstairs for crazy girl poor crazy girl stuck in her room with no food but a ham hock sneaky China Doll Girl stole for her

No food but a ham hock! No food but a ham hock!

China Doll Girl me say to China Doll Girl did you see any mustard n China Doll Girl says No n I say Okay n I eat the ham hock until it’s down to the bone n I chew on the bone gnaw gnaw gnaw n China Doll Girl climbs back to the shelf n stands there like a doll except I know better China Doll Girl sneaky sneaky China Doll Girl who stole a ham hock for me (crazy girl)

Crazy girl! crazy girl!

sing song China Doll Girl talk in her head

crazy girl put the bone meat chewed off

white ham hock bone under her bed

crazy crazy girl collecting bones under her bed