Big or Small

Justin Adams
ILLUMINATION
Published in
2 min readMay 12, 2024
Picture taken by Ronan Furuta from Unsplash

Always seem to be questioning my own beliefs

Step onto a puddle

Your sock remains damp

Until the dryer/washer has to deal with it in a cycle

Period

The dryer/washer always has to deal with your mess

From the residue of your ex to failed cooking experiments that

Gordon Ramsay wouldn’t even want the sight of

The least you could do is acknowledge its pronouns

If the lights were to go out

You’d definitely learn what it means to throw out the kitchen sink with the bathwater

Always seem to be stepping over my ownfeet

But the shoe store doesn’t offer pairs anymore

The shoe store’s an awful dealer

Has me hooked on Afterpay and the credit god known as Klarna

[Greek mythology yet to be updated]

I’m always buying something

to clean up my own image

Like a smudge on a magazine

It enhances more than it takes away

Blow the dust off your hand-me-downs

Your true size reveals itself when you have to slide into

other people’s shoes

We’re all floating on a circle

Passing the torch to feed an overfed god that wants the Sun to explode anyway

Stumbling out of a vacuum

Getting sucked into the minutiae of decisions and mistakes that we made or shouldn’t have happened

Like pancakes and steak

What we get served in this life won’t always make sense

Certainly can’t refer it back to the Bible

None of us ever really grow up

We’re all janitors in someone else’s luxury rental building

We never stop having messes to clean

We just learn how to cope

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Justin Adams
ILLUMINATION

Writer/Storyteller at Heart. Inquirer of Knowledge. I write on a variety of topics.