All that’s Wild and Wonderful is coming to me through electronic media

All that’s wild and wonderful
Is coming to me through electronic media

I met you over an ISDN line having found your website on
New funky poetry for the masses
And your verses are full of the anguish of the
Longing heart of
IT support techies.

That’s you
That’s me
That’s the boy on the CD
That I play on my PC
As he sings in the USA
Out of sight and an ocean away.

All that’s wild and wonderful
Is coming to me through electronic media.

I rest my hands on the ergonomic keyboard
And gaze at the brick wall outside my office window
Who puts a wall outside a window?
Avoiding my screen of e-mails I listen to you sing
Inside my headphones.

All that’s wild and wonderful
Is coming to me through electronic media

And it’s all free..

Sarah de Nordwall 1999

Written in an office in TV Centre in 1999, while working for the Top Gear Website, answering 200 e-mails a day about the Fantasy Formula One game and listening to Dave Crossland on my headphoness, singing “Looking for the Light”..