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This page contrasts abundance and confinement, measuring social size through `mantion's`, a room, and how much life still remains ahead.

The poem is slight but effective. It sets scale as a social fact and then quietly inverts it, suggesting that a small room can still contain a larger future than a filled mansion.

The poem measures status by interior space: other 'Men have mantion's' that 'fill up in minutes', while the speaker keeps only 'a room / with a long way to go', quietly converting smallness into open future rather than lack.