All grown up and nowhere to go

Hi Alan - yeh, that's a valid observation, and accurately reflects an essential element of this piece. However, it has to be acknowledged that poetry is essentially fiction, and that the 'I' in any poem can be employed as a virtual first person narrator if the subject matter is better accommodated that way. Admittedly, everything that's written reflects the characteristics, attitudes and/or experiences of the writer, whether implicitly or explicitly - direct quoting & even plagiarism reveals something about the writer, however subjectively it's construed :>
In this case, I did draw substantially on personal experience, although the intention was to differentiate between the slices and the filling (applied unattributed, until the anticlimactic yawn

Sounds plausible, almost grown up - and nowhere to go besides pulp fiction...

Thanks for reading & commenting Alan - obviously I relish any opportunity to squirt a response...