A BED FOR THE NIGHT:

The telecoms stole the time of our lives,
It brings us down,
We phone the people whose job it is to get coms fixed,
They say the problem is fixed,
But it’s not,
And there’s more than one problem,
And then,
When they look again,
They find it’s the problem,
Like we told them,
They send people to fix the problem,
Who say the problem is fixed,
But that reveals other problems,
More people are despatched to fix the other problems,
They find things,
That were not fixed by the people who came to fix them before,
Even though we’re told they’ve been fixed,
The phone line crackles,
The hums,
The phone is muffled,
Our internet runs at a speed of 0.2MB,
We consider buying a carrier pigeon

(K)