A Little Man's Sculpted Rage:
GI JOE TURNS 30
"An icon for the age,"
say toy makers,
a market coup,
fighting through jungles
and deserts in 60%
of American boy minds.
250 million sold
since 1964 dawned
on its hound-faced president.
A male for the species,
a scar on his jaw,
running down Lyndon's belly
to Kennedy heads,
-a song line sung to shattered ancestors-
Cracking frost lines,
etching scar on the pane
-the crouching sin beneath Joe's whip
roars Ken's seven-fold vengeance-
The scarred doll retreats across his bloody earth.