Talking to Camera

You are the glamorous TV presenter
trying to record a thirty second piece to camera
but every time you either stumble over your lines,
a police car screeches past
or someone creeps into the back of the shot
and the director has to shout cut.

I know what you're trying to tell me
but I am your hapless cameraman,
forever walking backwards
and neither of us can get on with our lives
until you say the words
I know you have spent so long rehearsing.