That Dolls Meant Death

Or that dolls were dolls
Or that death was death
Or that this meant that
Meant this meant that. Frank
Name-checked like a pro,

Like good DJs rap,
Long, long time now gone.
But that names meant poems
He would have known. Frank
Talk means you don’t know,

And as yet we can’t,
Poems or no, names checked
Like coats and hats or
Lost, to be frank, how
Meant things make meant things.