If you don’t keep a slice

Of yourself

Just for yourself,

They will take all of you

And eat you like cake.

Black Forest. Dulce de Lece. Lemon Pound. Walnut Torte. Bundt. Strawberry Shortcake.

It doesn’t matter….

They’ll eat you up

Until not a crumb remains

On the disposable styrofoam plate

Or the gnawed-up plastic fork.

All that will be left is residual icing

On a crumpled napkin

That they mindlessly used

To wipe their salivating mouths.

Always save a slice of yourself

For yourself,

Because no one else will.

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❤👽

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*** Thought you were on a diet, Toots? ***

*** I always wonder where so much of me has gone. Then I look at their bellies, and I have my answer. ***