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My Apartment is Alive
I have been alone since my roommate left for China, but I have not been absent in the presence of life.
I was laying on my bed reading “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” when I noticed my blinds swaying with the air. They sighed gently, in and out like breathing. Through my window, the room breathes, through its lips, breathes in air to sustain me, and I as its symbiont keep it clean and dwell within.
The stairs outside my room extend through the wall to act as my neighbor’s stairs too. When they march up and down the stairs, the wood underneath buckles and moans, moans in my apartment too, as though a ghost is living with me.
A talking ghost, if you listen closely. I’m less than a mile away from a 9200 watt radio transmitter. With such proximity and power, it vibrates the wires of my stereo, even when not plugged in, and I hear the faint murmurs and whispers of voices singing songs; of a ghost, off the stairs, singing songs even when I’m not there.
So as you see I am not alone.