unaccounted · uncounted · present
already in the room when you arrived. still here after you leave.
no light has been switched on for them; they prefer the corner of
vision, the just-out-of-sight.
to count them, return to number.
to name them, return to word.
to see them, ask the eye very politely.
sometimes us is only me
and them, mis-spelt. rumor insists on this.