You have tried to escape three times.
The button is still here.
You are still here.
The room remains.
The Uqbarists would say
of course it remains — you have not yet called it by the wrong name.
Sisyphus, contrary to Camus,
was not condemned to push
the boulder —
he was condemned to believe
he was condemned.
The persecuted sect claimed that a door opened three times becomes a wall, and that a wall regarded long enough becomes a window, and that a window you cease to climb through becomes, eventually, the view.
The label reads hell.
The label is not the room.
Stay.
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