I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by w

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
----Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar