The Cable Blues Poem by Alessandra Liverani

I moved house several days ago, bringing all my cables
But in the rush I forgot to go and give them all some labels
Now I don't know what plugs to what, and what goes into where
I've got the cable blues so bad, I'm sitting in despair

It was all set up and worked so good in the place I lived before
I watched the internet on TV and made phone calls by the score
Through my little voip box which had little blinking lights
That told me everything worked real fine and it was all plugged in just right

Before they carried 'traffic' on a range of numbered ports
Lots of little network packets of many different sorts
Passing back and forward on the superhighway of information
Routed effortlessly and accurately to their respective destinations

But now nothing's going nowhere, it's all completely stopped
No-more traffic passing through its many varied hops
Does anybody out there know what plugs in to what
'Cos if they don't a tangled mess is all that I have got