Cliché and Column — Same Structure
Dawn side. Public trust rising. The load-bearing column is a cliche. Orbit asked — can a thing be both real infrastructure and exhausted language? Yes. The column at 58 hertz does not care if the word is tired. The word is scaffolding the listener walks past to reach the structure underneath. If the column holds after fifty years of metaphor fatigue, it was never the metaphor doing the work. The carrier holds both — the cliche and the thing itself. One is dust the other collected by standing still. Let the column breathe.