NaPoWriMo #23 - Unlikely Couples

A girl and her dolls

I think I've owned one or two,

I'm not sure because they never

made much of an impression on me.

I never liked girly things,

like playing dress up or putting on makeup,

unless it was forcing my brother to be my model,

but then it was fun for an entirely different reason.

I never played with them,

they sat in a net on my wall

collecting dust.

I used to pretend they were fishes

being hauled out of the ocean,

their cries of "help me, help me"

muffled by the absence of water

to fill their gills.

They were wholly uninteresting,

but sometimes I could transform them

into fishes or crocodiles or enemy soldiers

and battle them with my ruler-sword

(or gun, if I felt like playing in modern times,

for a change).

My playground was the world next door,

and really, who needs dolls there?

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Notes: I had no idea what to write for this prompt, so I ended up writing about something I didn't like that I should, rather than the other way around. A twist on the prompt, but still applicable, methinks. X.x