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Pastimes : A Poetry Corner
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From: ManyMoose4/4/2005 3:42:02 PM
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UNDER A TELEPHONE POLE

I am a copper wire slung in the air,
Slim against the sun I make not even a clear line of shadow.
Night and day I keep singing--humming and thrumming:
It is love and war and money; it is the fighting and the tears,
the work and want,
Death and laughter of men and women passing through me, carrier of your speech,
In the rain and the wet dripping, in the dawn and the shine dripping,
A copper wire.

Carl Sandburg
from Harvest Poems 1910-1960

For those of you with a cell phone glued to your ear, telephone conversation once took place over a copper wire. I still remember that era, and I've hung my share of Number 9 wire. Number 9 isn't copper though.
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