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

Where 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 up 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.