Cable ties

Thick, shiny

Strong.

Mr Gray's toy collection

User instructions never adhered

Have you ever

once seen one where

it's supposed to be?

Holding cables, bundled together

Like locks of hair

glossy and straight

A wig at the back of the TV.

Snips and nips of sliced ties

across the estate floor,

Gigantic ants scuttling

to safety from

The scissors of life