it’s the little things

like being able to work out
how to change the lead in a propelling pencil
finding out you can charge your mobile
while it’s still switched on, after all these years

reading that in my lifetime I will drink
around 75,000 cups of tea
and spend 129 days ironing
that using a saucepan lid increases efficiency by up to 90%
hearing, anecdotally, that it can take up to 8 minutes to die in the electric chair,

that one third of the world has no electricity