Standard Sizes

Walk into any department store
to find rows and rows of standard sizes
although without notice they change from small
to something much larger.

Seats in movie theaters have increased in size
something it the hormones and genetically altered

plants have caused humans
to grow wider and bigger than they used to be.

We are like dinosaurs preparing for extinction
while the rich become richer and larger
dwarfing the little people who manufacture
clothing and furniture

but as the population increases
it seems wiser to shrink in size

by growing smaller, eating less food,

taking less space, requiring fewer resources

becoming like ants marching along in a row
or maybe by allowing one queen bee

to reproduce for the rest of us
while we, the lowly worker

shoulder the needs
of the population, toiling

from sunrise to sunset.