someone every morning pulled out this chair for Mr. K
so he could eat his bowl of berries and bran flakes;
someone polished fingerprints
from brass banisters;
someone removed brown leaves
from lobby bouquets;
a carpenter made a straight wall curved
to match an armoire’s turn;
me and John, we crawled a wire
through forty yards of spidernests
to re-switch the canopy lights
and from 10-foot ladders watched a black Buick
aim high-speed for the doorman
who stood still for the regular’s tip.
:: Susan Eisenberg, Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site (1998)
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