Elevator

[melodily]

Doors closing
so I slid my palms across his
frame
            and then we were
            alone, him in the box
            of me & he paused
            his atoms bulbous-still

& then my weights whamed down my cables yanked up all of motion strained and
came
Up! Up! I lifted and we
Wooshed through the shaft a flying box
burst through time and space am I
going too fast I asked as he
jerked at every floor
                                    (all his buttons were
                                     done up you see but
                                     this was solved quite
                                     easily as my fingers
                                     sashayed their way between,
                                     below reading
                                     round the stubble
                                     bumps
and then pushed them all
at once

and my weights hung, cables tensed and loosed the lights shut
down right before we shot through the
roof