She fell to the floor in a heaving thump

Full of wordless suffering

Spilling armloads of books

And an uncharged phone

I failed to remember to thank the mayor

Because my memory's buffering

So I flooded the switchboard at the civic center

Now remember

Now remember

Remember, remember, remember

Sometimes no-one fields those calls

I failеd to invent the new pеrfect power plant

That could power our home through the coming big rip

That still threatens to tear us apart

At submolecular levels

And she calls from her ball on the floor

And she's scared and [-] and lovely and bored

And convinced that she's smarter than

The Homeland Security SWAT team

While they pound down the door