The Doll
Here is the little doll I brought you — It shows the kind of simp I thought you !
Samuel Hoffenstein
Here is the little doll I brought you — It shows the kind of simp I thought you !
Samuel Hoffenstein’s two-line poem works like a joke with a hidden edge. A speaker gives someone a small doll, then says the toy reveals what a “simp”—a simpleton—the speaker thought that person was. The gift is not a token of affection; it is a way of calling the other person childish or foolish.
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