RATION

RATION

this be
your daily allocation
full poetry ration

honed down,
barely a taste

pensioner
packet

smallest feasible
as to
   size
and volume

nothing spacious, rapacious,
utterly epic
decidedly dramatic

way below
what you get
when you ask for your
basic quota
of required rationality

crucial for survival
somehow
       slipping
through your fingers

just
flowing down the drain