A Pome a Day for a Year

These little wirey lads and gals
be laying as twine throughout
ductwork and cage, the rainbow
carriers of information and power!

The blood vessels of our current age,
pumping and coursing,
keeping our world turning
from the saftey of the background,
do you ever think about
those spindly and beefly
cylinders? Those vital tracks
of future security?

Cables upon cables
litter the ceiling above my head
and I often find my hands
within their writhing mass,
fixing and pulling and adding
and subtracting and caring
for the pulsing heart of the system
I maintain.