Crumbs

[dukealien]

Intrigued by the levels of humor and sincerity here.  On first reading, stopped halfway through to start again from the beginning, thinking some clew as to a hidden alternate ("real?") line structure had been missed.  One could, perhaps, be contructed so as to place full rhymes at the end of each line, but they would be of unequal length and, anyway, they read more pleasantly and unexpectedly as internal rhymes.

As to the theme/story, it's The Story.  Can only be thankful to have come to poetry late in life, avoiding many years of such breadful dreadful frustration    .