eat out to help out

I ate my ambition.

It was big

and tasty

greasy and glorious.

Sploshed by butter,

swaddled by sugar,

wounded by salt

– my ideas died

like slugs

on the wrong side

of the allotment.

Pinch 

an inch 

– or three.

This spare type 

Is a safety ring 

I’m bobbing away.

Icebergs ahead

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