second C-clamp floor



         Ah, there it is!
         the hotel I'm supposed to stay at
         I walk in and enter
         to the elevator
         and press the button for
         the hundred and twenty-seventh floor
         and I look up and notice
         as I'm floating up to my floor
         that there is no ceiling
         just a bar with a small box
         advancing on it
         What is it for?
         It's supported by two C-clamps
         the box is past the first one now
         Now it's at the second
         the elevator doors open
         and I hear:
         "Welcome to second C-clamp floor"

         I wake up next noon
         and I stretch, and I realize:
         someone has stolen all my clothes
         so I go into the living room
         (it's a very grand hotel
         and I've got a suite)
         and Sasha is there
         so we play a game of chess
         but it's not following the rules
         and it's a strange situation
         and a strange position
         (on the chess board, that is)
         two rooks, three knights, and only one king
         my mind blanks with a flash
         and I've won the game --
         and she's gone...
         I didn't see her go

         I look 'round the room
         it's very bright with the sun
         and...and it's her from my old high school --
         it's the "Israeli Stormtrooper"
         (substitute teacher from Hell!)
         so I run quickly to answer Nature's call
         to the bathroom I flee
         and as I'm standing there
         I realize that the wall next to me
         is a full-length
         plate glass window
         and all the construction workers
         on the roof next door
         are looking
         so I flee to the other
         room of the bathroom
         which has a sink...
         and a toilet standing in the middle of the floor --
         where the full-size bathtub used to be??
         She's stolen it, the bitch!

         So I order down for breakfast
         and walk out into the hall
         (it's really ornate, painted and clean --
         the tapestries, carpeting, intelligent cockroaches evolving
                and all)
         and dinner arrives
         with Rachel on the tray
         (along with pasta, Gatorade, and bill)
         and the room, I've just noticed
         doesn't have a roof
         no wonder it's so bright
         a sneeze, a snooze...

         And we wake up on second C-clamp floor
         as we should -- but
         it 's not the hundred and twenty-seventh
         anymore
         it's...  Wait!  the building is gone
         We're just floating on second C-clamp floor

























         (C) Bruce Caruthers 1989
         Ver. 1  Rev. 0                             TH05111989.0542-PU