portraits of red and grey #5 by James Morehead
July 3, 2011
portraits of red and grey #5
by James Morehead
we try to find the five stars
moscow's hotel cosmos
ten inviting glass doors
( a little grimy )
eight locked
one jammed
one opens
a quick briefing on keys and floor passes :
we require a pass to enter the hotel
a pass to get our room key
we must not leave with our key
or without our pass
onwards to a row of elevators
nine green slid shut doors
( apologies and only three in good repair )
ah
the green door opens
our floor
my roomate (phil) and i step out and are ambushed in russian
an oldish woman ''your passes please'' we guess
we hear
she sits to one side
behind a table
and a box of neatly spaced keys
she clasps our passes
exchanges them for keys
"go left''
we go
confused
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