Cool Facts About The Telephone

You who live safe / In your warm houses / You who find, returning in the evening / Hot food and friendly faces / Consider if this is a man / Who works in the mud / Who knows no peace / Who fights for a bread / Who dies for a yes or a no. / Consider if this is a woman, / no hair and no name / no more strength to remember / Her eyes empty and her womb cold / Like a frog in winter.