Bacon Rinds & Pecan Pies

Gratitude?
I’m not grateful
– I’m hungry for
adulation.
I need to feed
off the bacon rinds
and pecan pies
left
from the real feast.
A token offering is
often
more than enough
to feed me for a week,
to keep me
writing
– but I don’t grovel,
change my style
or show signs of
gratitude
unless you
dare to
kiss my feet.
© 11 March 2007, I.D. Carswell