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Elevator to the 25th Floor

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A Blank Verse poem about travelling on a lift/elevator in a high-rise.

 

Elevator to the 25th Floor : 21 lines of Blank Verse about a traveller through Space and Time.

 

Pneumatic doors wheeze open and I enter the small bare room

to join those chosen few already assembled,

familiar strangers in this confining capsule;

cryogenically-packed passengers on a finite journey.

 

Muted ritualistic greetings are exchanged,

verse and antiphon,

automatic passwords,

like spies protecting their anonymity.