Cutting Out

Lying here between your progeny and your Visa card statement

Beside the coffee stained torn envelope

We took your facsimile and we pinned it to the wall

Here on the other side of the world

You call here when it's 3 AM and we hear music playing

You call here and you don't have time to talk

You call in on your cell phone but you're cutting out

Here on the other side of the world

You send in electronic mail transmissions

Dispatches from your colonies - your Commonwealth

But your syntax is distracted and your sideways happy face

Is not on the other side of the world

from the girl

with the starry eyes

and the easy smile

she's just sitting there

Could I stay a while?

Lying here between your progeny and your Visa card statement

Beside the coffee stained torn envelope

We took your facsimile and we pinned it to the wall

Here on the other side of the world