Passenger

Walking round Chicago

I have smuggled you as cargo

Though you are far away unknowing

By the time we get to Salt Lake

I have packed you in my suitcase

Ironed the creases from my own remembering

She said Bird why

We wound our way to Texas

And I summoned remote hexes

And I sent them across dust and oceans

In Phoenix Arizona I had the notion

I might phone you

But there it lived and died a notion

She said Bird why I said Bird why

Oh my satellite oh my passenger

We came up on Ohio

I have you chewed on like a biro

You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering

We came to Minneapolis

All fizzy blood and twitchy fists

I buried you in a day of snowing

She said Bird why I said Bird why

Oh my satellite oh my passenger

Oh my satellite oh my passenger