Tuesday, April 24, 2018

CABLING HOME


Cockatoos developed [an] enthusiasm for biting into the cables, the NBN said, as a way to keep their beaks in top working condition - Huffington Post

Cockatoos heave eaten our table
digesting its fabric and wood
but now the new national cable
has become their regular food.

They have eaten all of the railing
and flooring that once was our deck
so if cockies are causing the failing
of cable I gloat: “What the heck?” 

They are keeping their beaks in top order
by eating the data in bytes.
It’ll cause a gut-based disorder
and diminish consumer-based rights

to speedy transmission of Twitter
from Trump to his friends Down-in-Under,
but what, may I ask could be fitter,
than thus cut us from US asunder?

So a toast to our cockatoo friends
whose relentless destructive digestions
will force us all in the end
to use non-cable suggestions.

Take two cans in your hands if you please:
link them with string – quite long.
Listen with joy at your ease
as your friend bursts forth into song.

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