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 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? 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