What to do in these situations

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A co-worker, who should have left 30 minutes ago, is standing in the cubicle right next to mine, talking to someone behind me, continuously for that whole time. It's really difficult to shut out their conversation. I want to ask the co-worker to move to where the other co-worker is, but I'm afraid of being seen as rude and having them snap at me for it.

What should I do?

Finally, she left. I like her and all, but that conversation was noisy.

Lie? Tell him you have an important phonecall to make (and the line is bad) and if he could please move closer to the convesation so you can hear better? Or to please keep his voice down a little because you have a migrane comming on.
Or just wo/man up and tell him to please keep his voice down because it's distracting to you.

Generally speaking if you say something in a polite way and an apologetic smile, they don't get annoyed.

Edit: Just realized how stupid I am, presuming it's a man doing the loud talking...

Thanks.

I frequently face this situation and I always keep headphones close at hand so I can make the noise go away. It works really well.