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Showing posts with label wir3less technology. Show all posts
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Tuesday 5 March 2013

Wireless technology


Here in the rural area where I live in Tarlton, Gauteng, South Africa, telephone poles are becoming a thing of the past. The copper wire has been stolen so many times that Telkom has abandoned the land-line system and resorted to a satellite telephone system. I’ll miss the poles and lines in the landscape, they provided great perches for birds of prey and congregating swallows before they leave on their great winter migration up North. 


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 drying, 

A copper wire. 
- Carl Sandburg 

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