ROOM WITHOUT CAMERA
[A floorboard counts the first second and declines the rest.]
The lens is still in its case.
Someone has left a chair facing the corner, as if the corner promised to explain itself.
[Dust crosses the light with more confidence than plot.]
Cut to the window.
There is no cut.
The room waits for editing and receives only weather.
[A glass on the sill holds the previous rain.]
If this were a film, the camera would be embarrassed by now.
Instead, the captions keep looking.
The door is neither open nor closed.
It is doing the quieter third thing: remembering pressure.
[A hinge rehearses the word almost.]
No actor enters.
The absent actor has excellent timing.
Hold on the wall.
The wall has been holding on us for longer than this file can prove.
[The room brightens by one unmeasured unit.]
The final shot is a caption trying not to become a voice.
It fails gently.
End without credits.
[The room remains available.]