This dirty, untidy and disordered condition that we call a mess, reminds me of my childhood where these kind of words were part of my parents vocabulary, most of the time linked to toys...
Later on I learned not to mess with people that know martial arts , but there were still many occasions left over that really had the power to mess me up.
If you think that once you're finished with cleaning up, your whole life would be ahead of you, you have to be careful as you might have removed only the most obvious part of dirt.
To make it short, there are so many ways to mess with things, so why not take this artwork as an example...it would really need some cleaning.
"Who cleans the mess up?"
original collage by Werner Hornung
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The better you look the more you see