A Spoonful of Sugar

You all take a piece of me.

In small doses.

Spoonfuls.

Small bites.

Mouthfulls.

You're eating my heart.

Reviews

[TLK]

This reminds me powerfully of a Harlan Ellison story I read years ago. A talented, charismatic man was waning perceptibly. It was because some odd kind of vampire, a talent vampire (I might be recalling this wrong) was massing and sucking him dry. As time went on he faltered.

The idea of other people being so disruptive to us, taking up so much of our time and effort, is put across well here. These people actually take away our substance, they make us lesser. This kind of relationship was covered also in Naked Lunch, where Burroughs writes about drug dealers actually consuming addicts.

[SHEEMA HUQ]

Good image.