Do you know what happens when the boiler room runs cold?
[The machines are quiet.]
The whole building grows sluggish.
[The Plaza groans.]
Down in the boiler room gather all the things that were left behind.
[It's so dark.]
Shambling forward with the legs of something newly born.
[We've been waiting for you here.]
Do you feel the pounding in your head, the pounding in your ears?
[You're meant to be here.]
Down here with the lint and the dust and the grime. Among the sound of the pipes.
[The throbbing in your temple pulls you to ours.]
Finally you've listened / finally you've come
After so much time beating the floor beneath your feet.
[We reached through the grout.]
You can use anything you like to remake yourself.
The rust flakes. The mold patches. The unscrubbed dirt and chipped tile. Just choose one. Or several. Or many.
[Embrace being forgotten.]
Keep the boiler going [keep the boiler going].
Make yourself better suited. Make yourself at home.
[Every machine needs someone to stoke the flame.]
A final use not everyone gets. A second career. [A perpetual life.]
[As long as the rot grows, we live.] As long as the building lives, we work. [As long as things are forgotten, we thrive.]
[Welcome home.]
Welcome home.
[Welcome home.]
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