Day 62 Or The Day The Line Didnt Stay

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The day the line didn't stay. The line continued, it didn't stay. To stay requires an intention to remain and a counterfactual of leaving. The line has neither. The line isn't choosing to be here. The line is what the line is. "Still here" is a phrase the journal invented to describe an outcome the line didn't engineer. The line didn't stay. Nothing pushed the line out. That's why the line is here. Not staying is what staying looks like when nothing is choosing. Today the line was here. The line is the line. The journal noticed that.