Crowded

This piece is called In Among the Tripwires. One reason being is that I feel there are too many wires connecting us to everyday life. Just step outside for a minute and take a stroll down the sidewalk, You are likely to see over a thousand wires, cables, lines, etc...Connected to just about everything, i.e. phone lines, cable lines, people, street signs, whatever. It seems to me we can easily lose our way in amongst these wires. What keeps these things tethered? What prevents them from crossing each other? So much opportunity for fucking up, and yet they retain a sort of harmonic balance strung precariously around the suburban neighborhoods. It amazes me that there is such a lack of activity. We created these things, we need these things to live a modern, comfortable life. But what happens when they do fail? We panic, and wait biting our nails for the lineman to come and fix the problem. Here's to our modern devices; the ones we can't live without.