the janitor
	he said when he got to the employee lounge
	there was a whole cup of coffee spilled
	the cup left shattered on the floor
	and he was pissed.
	nobody had bothered to clean it up.
	so he got out his mop
	and asked someone what had happened,
	why it had been left.
	they told him
	an engineer, a friend of his,
	had had a heart attack
	just as he was taking his coffee out of the microwave
	and he dropped the cup
	before he fell.
	the ambulance was only six blocks away
	five minutes at the most
	but it took them twelve minutes to get there.
	he was lying on the floor gasping for air,
	he turned blue and died
	in nine minutes.
	he was only 42 years old
	and his friends watched him die
	and he should have had a chance.
	they should have gotten there in time.
	someone should have helped him.
	the coffee and the broken cup
	were left there
	on the floor.
	nobody thought about it.
	nobody remembered.
	"and i came in at 4:00",
	he said, "and cleaned it up
	and when they told me what had happened
	i went back to that spot
	and sat there
	and cried."