Elevator Music Revisited

first floor

faint glimmerings of hope and men's shoes


second floor
lingerie and leering husbands



third floor
cutlery and bones




fourth floor
everybody dance now





fifth floor
introspection followed by remorse






sixth floor
everyone knows there's no sixth floor







seventh floor
executive offices and cockroaches








take the stairs

to the roof

look at the stars

listen to the city

smile at the joke*

and

wonder why


you ever thought



of jumping




off









*Joke not included.
Management not responsible if you trip and fall off the edge, in an ironic twist of fate.