Wires

Every

Single

Day

Workers add

Still more new wires

And more wires

The

Wires

All the wires

Multiple wires

Countless and confusing

Running like spaghetti noodles through walls

From behind locked steel doors

Down all the hallways

Interconnecting at strategic nodal points

Then, traveling out to power poles

And then to larger cables

Hanging over the paths

And running out onto the streets

And from the streets running to the center of the City

And from the center of the City to the Provincial Capitol

And from the Provincial Capitol

They run all the way to Beijing

And there they all stop

In one huge bundle of steel, plastic and copper noodles

At the communications room of the Premier of China

In the background of the student's lives

As humble as they all are

These wires are largely invisible

They seem to function somewhat

Like the strings of a marionette

Along the wires

Doubtless pass

Untold secrets

Allowing more control from above

They make the people dance and sing and jest

Entangling the lives of the people

Instructing them when

To laugh and cry

Love and hate