Baby Aimee

by Oonah V Joslin

with real-feel skin

life-like, genuine

guaranteed to please

and fully pose-able

she's yours to buy

to hold close. Cherish

every chubby inch of her.

Perfect she

doesn't cry or pee; she

doesn't breathe or grow

and cannot die.

So real, surreal, unreal

she really unsettles me.

Or would it be

the market’s need for her?

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Oonah V Joslin is poetry editor at The Linnet’s Wings. She has won prizes for both poetry and micro-fiction. Her book Three Pounds of Cells ISBN: 13: 978-1535486491 is available online from Linnet’s Wings Press and you can see and hear Oonah read in this National Trust video. The first part of her novella A Genie in a Jam is serialised at Bewildering Stories, along with a large body of her work (see Bibliography). You can follow Oonah on Facebook or at Parallel Oonahverse https://oovj.wordpress.com/.