She's looking mighty good for 40 years, but we've heard Barbie doll has had some plastic surgery. Get all the dirt on the girl from Malibu... Ken, Midge, Skipper, GI Joe. Los Angeles poet BILLIE DEE tells all.
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BILLIE DEE'S POETRY
by Billie Dee
Turns Forty
What do you buy the girl who has everything?
     Pink plastic condo with matching pink jacuzzi,
     patio furniture, pink canvas-topped golf cart,
     a classic corvette and custom Winnebago,
     Leer jet and jet ski,
     her own private polo club with pink-nylon ponies,
     gambling casinos, oil wells,
     sugar plantations, copper mines,
     whole Third World countries...

     and clothes ... clothes ... my god! she's got clothes!

What else could she need?
But she's a real American girl -- more is more and leads to more --
     and Barbie will never ever have enough stuff.

Because the older Barbie gets, the fewer friends she has.
     Take her little pal, Skipper -- who grew up
          and was last seen turning tricks with GI Joes
          down on Sunset Boulevard
     Or Midge, the saucy brunette with bobby sox
          and freckles. She ran off with fuzz-head Ken,
          the eunuch.

But Barbie didn't seem to mind.
She got a new Ken --
like when Samantha got a new Daren -- remember that?
The new Ken had real doll hair,
and a cute little genital bump in his pants, smooth
as a ballet dancer's crotch.

Poor Barbie! She'll never get enough!    

Blond Skipper
Malibu Ken
Malibu Midge
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