To a Something Pulled from a Toychest

Hunch-backed, fork-tailed, long-toed, eyes staring as if blind.
Creature, the one who made you, what was on his mind?
"You ask me why I'm like this? Why -- were you designed?"

—22 April 2009

A workshop writing exercise. It really was bizarre, an animaloid fantasia in yellow plastic.

---L.