Tag: adulthood

  • Adulthood

    Remember when you were a kid and
    you thought working for a living was fun?
    Sitting behind your travel agency and
    putting plastic coins in your till, acting like
    a tiny adult in your plastic world with your
    plastic kitchen oven and washing machine,
    teaching your dolls their ABCs, putting
    plastic food in your plastic shopping basket,
    pretending to eat with your plastic cutlery,
    because it was interesting and new.
    But adulthood is repetition. Adulthood is
    buying toilet roll and running out of toilet roll
    and going food shopping and washing up
    and deciding and eating and commuting
    and buying toilet roll and running out of toilet roll
    and sitting and paying and waiting for the weekend
    and shopping and making appointments and
    washing clothes and cleaning and remembering
    appointments and running out of toilet roll
    and making packed lunches and buying toilet roll
    and running out of toilet roll.