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..^=^$¤#@# in a black rubbery sleep i dream about #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## cold boiling asphalt and ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# crimson emergency flares... #@#¤$^=^..
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..^=^$¤#@# they were tearing down statues, and #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## bellowing their manifest, in the rain, ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# in the dark, #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# and something followed me out, a #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## yearning. a memory of being touched by ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# a ray from a raspberry sun. still #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## there, everything would be gritty and ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# full of tar. rain upon it. but then a #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## few bright and colorful anomalies. and ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# a promise for more. #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# like waking up with a business card in #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## your pocket... ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## a feather boa wrapped around a velvet ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# lizard, surfacing for milliseconds at a #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## time, calling, tugging at my arms. ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# begging me to sink back down and be #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## with them, with their kind. easy to get ##@#¤$^=^.
..^=^$¤#@# washed away from the tether, from the #@#¤$^=^..
.^=^$¤#@## way back up. ##@#¤$^=^.
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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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