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The Glass Elevator
by Michael Levy

He loved to ride
the glass elevator
up 44 floors
watching
as people slowly
changed into ants
dwelling on high
in heavenly
delusions of grandeur
praying to time
the great tick-taker
to hold off
death from
cutting the cable