Related:

• Halfway down the stairs Is a stair Where I sit. There isn't any Other stair Quite like It.
  I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair Where I always Stop....
• Halfway up the stairs Isn't up, And isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, It isn't in the town.
  And all sorts of funny thoughts Run round my head...
• At the first turning of the second stair I turned and saw below The same shape twisted on the banister .
  .. Under the vapour in the fetid air Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears The deceitful face of hope and of despair....
• Winnie-the-Pooh read the notice very carefully, first from left to right, and afterwards, in case he had missed some of it, from right to left.
  -- A. A. Milne...
• As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there.
  He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. -- Hughes Mearns, _The Psychoed_...
• Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there.
  He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA....