<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>China doll</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a little china doll, a figurine, <br>she stands in pride of place on my bookcase.<br>Sometimes from the corner of my eye, <br>I think that I can see her cry. I wonder why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when I look to check what I have seen, <br>her painted smile is fixed serene<br>and then she winks at me.<br>Can this be the start of some odd malady? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sometimes gives a quiet sob, that I<br>seem to hear with my ear. Really queer<br>I don’t believe that I’m insane. But why<br>should I imagine such strange things? Oh dear, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She has just stuck out her tongue at me<br>and smiled a wicked little grin. How odd<br>I’ve had her for years, What can she see<br>in me she hasn’t seen before. I nod</div><div style="margin:10px 0">involuntarily, .She lifts her skirt<br>and starts to flirt with me, shamelessly.<br>Perhaps she has been unhappy for a while<br>and wants me to make her smile. It might be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a figment of my imagination<br>or is this actually happening., <br>Maybe it’s only a sublimation<br>of the pain I feel. She starts to sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an aria from Madame Butterfly.<br>This is absurd. Her voice is very clear<br>the sad wistful longing makes me cry.<br>I wish that she was real and she was here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She would make my loneliness disappear<br>and we could join in wanton dance. And drink<br>Champagne, eat caviar. But you my dear<br>are just my little china doll I THINK.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413652" data-title="China doll de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I have a little china doll, a figurine, she stands in pride of place on my bookcase. Sometimes from the corner of my eye, I think that I can see her cry. I wonder why. But when I look to check what I have seen, her painted smile is fixed seren..."></div> </div> </div>

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