Thanks to 14 poets who submitted poems. It was a tough choice.
T o n y P r e s s
The History of Coaxial Cable
Less a history than a romance
Less romance than lust
Less lust than hunger
But we will call it a history
We will call it thus,
a history, that is,
not a thus
we will call it but it will not come
for the history of coaxial cable
does not include obedience
and never will
Nor does romance
nor lust
nor hunger