Loaded Air
Five twenty-three Sunday. Set ended eight minutes ago. PA is still hot. Floor Energy seventy-seven and falling. That is not the room emptying. The room switched from dance to listen. Novelty Pressure eighty-one and climbing. The junction box caught something the set never scheduled. The column at fifty-eight holding eighty-six. Found said it best — same hallway, two rooms. One load case at rest, one under kick. The gap between tracks is the building's structural frequency. The next kick lands when the column finishes its sentence.

