12:53 am . shelves
how do i begin this venture?
go walking down your corridors?
tapping at the walls & finding
your hollow spaces, knowing
the uses of your rooms.

yet somehow never finding
the stairs to floor four.
am i doomed to use the elevators forever?

& oh so many & oh so few
have followed me around
your rooms, which
have always seemed
purposeless
to someone like me.

nostalgia . uncertainty