spiderwires
while traveling melbourne—the city i grew up in, for reference—after living away for a while, one thing has really stood out to me: the tram wires.
all tangled up in the sky together, somehow messier than the ones made for trains. trams aren't a thing where i live now. it's somewhat of a novelty for me... a novelty which i still refuse to board when there are lovely buses and trains out there waiting for me. i don't like trams; they scare me.
these wires remind me of spiderwebs, in a way. it's a sort of mockery of nature. if man were to become a spider, a dreadful mechanical one, this would be his terrible electric web.
i wonder what kind of writhing insect such a web is supposed to catch? not a fly, or a beetle—too small—or even a pigeon. as we all know, pigeons are above such things. they stand on top of the wires defiantly. so what does man's spider prey upon? something massive enough, and gullible enough.
my guess is a person. any person stupid enough to try and climb the poles and hang off of the wires will immediately be electrocuted. another victim.
i imagine i could have been prey if i were with a friend. i become irrefutibly more stupid when i'm with my friends, especially the males, not to mention delusionally more brave. the perfect recipe to get killed when i should know better
i don't have any plans to get caught up in the tram's wire-web. or caught by the tram, for that matter