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five

 

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 partner ( 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