I seen it as it looked,
The little lamp in that doll house,
Hanging over the dining room table,
White globes glowing yellow.
After--we sat on the log by the side of the road,
Our faces burning, red with humiliation.
Why did she shoo us out of the yard
Just as the doll house was opened?
Just because.
But I seen the little lamp.
(Inspired by Katherine Mansfield's story, "The Doll's House," 1922)
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