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The room with one window

The daemon does not wander.
Before it answers, it names
the few things it may touch.
The kernel hears that,
and shuts the rest of the house.

A path is either a path
or it is not.
The climb of two dots
stops at the landing.
A symlink is left unread.
We do not follow it out.

httpd holds the street.
It does not hold the key
for long.
slowcgi takes the question
downstairs, into the room
we unveiled,
and no farther.

Nothing else is installed
to watch a drawer of files.
The base system was the house
before we arrived.
The lights were already on.