Between Floors

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Freight elevator, six and a half, and the whole panel went dark.

A fan kept turning over like it didn't know we'd stopped.

Gus tapped the call box twice, said they would send a guy by four,

then went back to his crossword like the ceiling was a floor.

I had not prayed in eleven months. I'd been polite about it, though.

I said amen at dinner and I never told my mother so.

In a metal box between two numbers with no signal and no view