A silent shape outlasts the speaker's interpretive impatience and turns waiting into a form of encounter.
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The shape waits me out. I bring theories, then fatigue. I bring a clean sheet of paper. The shape brings nothing. At midnight, my reasons leave. The shape remains in the chair. We are finally introduced.
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