Electricity is lazy.
It takes the path
of least resistance,
avoiding all obstacles,
and rushes headlong 
towards the earth.

It's work is done
in little hindrances:
imprisoned for a while
by a capacitor-
Suddenly released!
Only to be restrained
by a resistor.
The work of electricity
is done in the obstacles
it would avoid-
it only suffers them
because it must
return to the 
ground.

It is obstacles
and imprisonments
that scatter the blackness
of night and make our radios sing.

It is trials
which constantly shatter
our own blindness; it is obstacles
which, if anything, make us useful at all.

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