Little Things

The little things that aren't kind,
you mind.
It's not the big things, really,
no--you could face a disaster
without a hair out of place,
but the lightbulb blew,
or the pilot went out,
or the door wasn't locked--
that thing threw
your day. And then you knew
the bottled fear that the payment
was due--for a moment.
The little thing could have been
nothing, or maybe the penultimate straw
before the fracture of the
dromedary's spine;
and yet the breech in your mind
is such, that little thing though
this setback was--you wonder.
A little thing?
A little thing a lot,
and that is probably a description
of everyone's experience,
unfortunately.