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The Haunted Lift


On the ground floor

of this ultramodern

tower block
in the dead

middle


of the night
the lift doors

open, with a

clang.
Nobody enters,

and nobody

comes out.
In the dead

middle


of the night
the lift doors

close with a clang,

and the lift begins
to move

slowly


up…
with nobody in it,

nobody but

the ghost of a girl
who lived here once

on the thirteenth floor of

this ultramodern tower block.
One day, she went to play

in an old part of town,

and never came back.
She said she was just

going to the corner shop,

but she never came home.
Now her ghost

keeps pressing

in the dead

middle of the night

the button

for the thirteenth floor.


But when the door

opens with a clang

she cannot step out.

She gazes longingly

at the familiar landing,

but only for a moment…


then the lift doors

clang in her face

and her tears
silently flow

as the lift

in the dead
middle

of the night

so soft and slow
carries her down again

down below

far, far below
the ground

floor, where nobody

waits for the haunted lift
Sometimes

on the thirteenth floor

her mother and father
with her photo

beside their bed

wake up
in the dead

middle of the night, and hear

the mysterious clanging
of closing lift doors,

and wonder

who it could be
in the dead

middle


of the night
using the lift

at such


an unearthly hour.
In this ultramodern

tower block



there is no thirteenth floor.
James Kirkup


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