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#@¤$††«,,,  IN A BLACK RUBBERY SLEEP I DREAM ABOUT  ,,,«††$¤@#
@¤$††«,,,,         COLD BOILING ASPHALT AND         ,,,,«††$¤@
¤$††«,,,,,       CRIMSON EMERGENCY FLARES...        ,,,,,«††$¤
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#@¤$††«,,,    THEY WERE TEARING DOWN STATUES, AND   ,,,«††$¤@#
##@¤$††«,,  BELLOWING THEIR MANIFEST, IN THE RAIN,  ,,«††$¤@##
#@¤$††«,,,               IN THE DARK,               ,,,«††$¤@#
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¤$††«,,,,,     AND SOMETHING FOLLOWED ME OUT, A     ,,,,,«††$¤
$††«,,,,,,  YEARNING. A MEMORY OF BEING TOUCHED BY  ,,,,,,«††$
††«,,,,,,,     A RAY FROM A RASPBERRY SUN. STILL    ,,,,,,,«††
$††«,,,,,,   THERE, EVERYTHING WOULD BE GRITTY AND  ,,,,,,«††$
¤$††«,,,,,  FULL OF TAR. RAIN UPON IT. BUT THEN A   ,,,,,«††$¤
@¤$††«,,,,  FEW BRIGHT AND COLORFUL ANOMALIES. AND  ,,,,«††$¤@
#@¤$††«,,,           A PROMISE FOR MORE.            ,,,«††$¤@#
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#@¤$††«,,,  LIKE WAKING UP WITH A BUSINESS CARD IN  ,,,«††$¤@#
@¤$††«,,,,              YOUR POCKET...              ,,,,«††$¤@
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$††«,,,,,,   A FEATHER BOA WRAPPED AROUND A VELVET  ,,,,,,«††$
††«,,,,,,, LIZARD, SURFACING FOR MILLISECONDS AT A  ,,,,,,,«††
$††«,,,,,,    TIME, CALLING, TUGGING AT MY ARMS.    ,,,,,,«††$
¤$††«,,,,,   BEGGING ME TO SINK BACK DOWN AND BE    ,,,,,«††$¤
@¤$††«,,,,  WITH THEM, WITH THEIR KIND. EASY TO GET ,,,,«††$¤@
#@¤$††«,,,   WASHED AWAY FROM THE TETHER, FROM THE  ,,,«††$¤@#
##@¤$††«,,               WAY BACK UP.               ,,«††$¤@##
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¤$††«,,,,, BUT I CANNOT GO. THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD  ,,,,,«††$¤
$††«,,,,,,  BE TOO LARGE. ESPECIALLY SINCE I'M IN   ,,,,,,«††$
††«,,,,,,,    THE WORK MILL AND THEY'VE GOT THEIR   ,,,,,,,«††
$††«,,,,,,   EYES ON ME ALREADY. THE FEELING WILL   ,,,,,,«††$
¤$††«,,,,,  WANE, AND I WILL MISS IT, AND CEASE TO  ,,,,,«††$¤
@¤$††«,,,,       UNDERSTAND. LIKE EVERY DAY.        ,,,,«††$¤@
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