The Null Dull Doll

Any ‘quiet a doll’ can come onstage today

Many will call her an artiste the following day

Gone are the days the actress played

Song of the genuine world’s parade

Doll was a doll and a woman was a woman

Call was humane and soul was solemn

A synthetic name and a white-washed doll would suffice

To call it a play and to break the local box office

When the maker makes the opposite of the fake

Then the null dull doll will flee for God’s sake

• Dayan Pasquel