the liftspotting syndrome
Liftspotting.Liftspotting.
Liftspotting.
Liftspotting.
Try standing by a bank of elevators for four hours. Watch the people walking in and out of the cars. You'll get to know them eventually. Who's a geek, who's in advertising, who's queer, who's polite, who wore a red shirt yesterday.
Watch the numbers indicating which floors the cars are at. Watch the arrows. Will they go up or down?
Listen to each chime as each car stops on a certain floor.
Then stand before the car which doors are about to slide open. Ting! The door opens. The door closes.
Ting!
Just at that moment when you're about to fall asleep later in the night, you hear a chime. Ting! The sound becomes an enemy. Ting! It seeps into your consciousness. It becomes a mantra. Ting! Ting! It chimes in your head. Over and over. Ting! Your pillow can't block out the sound.
Ting!
Because it's inside your head.
1 Comments:
hey mama jo.
i really liked this one.
perhaps because i see myself in every angle of it.
perhaps because every chime is the sound in my head.
perhaps because I just like the sound of it as i read it and repeat it in my thoughts.
what an insight...
paw
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