I started as a thread,
but I felt underfed
-so I ate everything
I could find,
until I became a string.
But my edges became frayed,
and I was afraid I’d expire
-so I grew tougher and stronger until
I became a wire-and sometimes a
A tireless carrier of current events.
But then I saw a cable,
and thought “oh, that could be me”,
and plot twist
-I met up with some other wires,
and we combined and intertwined,
until a cable we would be.
(No, not Spectrum or cable TV).
I still remember my days as a thread,
back in the old neighborhood.
Wrapped around a spool on a table,
