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.........- *\«««««---. .---«««««\* -.........
........-« «-........
.......-«\ \«-.......
......-«\* I Used To Be A Goth, In My Youth, Doing *\«-......
.....-«\*& Crimes Mostly From Or In My Beloved And &*\«-.....
....-«\*&@ Trusted Car, And Sometimes My Mothers @&*\«-....
...-«\*&@# Barn. We Lived Just Outside Town, A #@&*\«-...
..-«\*&@## Grove At The End Of A Dirt Road, And ##@&*\«-..
.-«\*&@### The Barn Was Placed So You Could Just ###@&*\«-.
..-«\*&@## Make Out The Surrounding Fields Through ##@&*\«-..
...-«\*&@# The Trees. #@&*\«-...
....-«\*&@ @&*\«-....
.....-«\*& My Car Was Black And Loud, Both The &*\«-.....
......-«\* Engine And The Way The Parts Didn'T *\«-......
.......-«\ Really Stick Together. I Took My \«-.......
........-« Crimefriend For Rides, In The Dark, The «-........
.........- Eternal Dark That Seemed To Surround -.........
.......... Us. She Seemed To Cast This Veil Over ..........
.........- Everything. Her Black Skirt Reached To -.........
........-« Her Knees But Then Somehow Also Back «-........
.......-«\ Around, Enveloping All My Memories Of \«-.......
......-«\* Our Time Together. *\«-......
.....-«\*& &*\«-.....
....-«\*&@ There Was Blood Everywhere. Sometimes @&*\«-....
...-«\*&@# The Blood Was Her Red Lipstick Or Her #@&*\«-...
..-«\*&@## Checkered Shirt. She Was On Television. ##@&*\«-..
.-«\*&@### We Did Crime, And We Made Weird ###@&*\«-.
..-«\*&@## Structures In The Barn, Tall Pillars Of ##@&*\«-..
...-«\*&@# Dark Wood, Ladders And Plateaus, Fires #@&*\«-...
....-«\*&@ And Fairy Lights. We Would Sleep There @&*\«-....
.....-«\*& And Drink There And She Would Go In The &*\«-.....
......-«\* Television. *\«-......
.......-«\ \«-.......
........-« And Then The Sun Came Out, And She Went «-........
.........- Away. Everything Changed... I Yearned, -.........
.......... And The World Became Dull Around Me. ..........
.........- -.........
........-« I Stopped Doing Crime, Except When «-........
.......-«\ Necessarry. Things Somehow Seemed Like \«-.......
......-«\* They Were Allright, Moulded In Place, *\«-......
.....-«\*& And I Loathed It ------ I Missed Her &*\«-.....
....-«\*&@ So Much. @&*\«-....
...-«\*&@# #@&*\«-...
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...-«\*&@# #@&*\«-...
....-«\*&@ I Searched For Her, But Nobody Had Any @&*\«-....
.....-«\*& Memories Of Her. Not So Much Of Me &*\«-.....
......-«\* Either, From The Time We Were Together. *\«-......
.......-«\ My Mother Said I Kept To Myself In The \«-.......
........-« Barn, Or In The Car. «-........
.........- -.........
.......... Sometimes I Could Still See Her ..........
.........- Flashing By On The Tv In The Barn. -.........
........-« Everything Was Black Then, For A «-........
.......-«\ Moment. I Remembered Her Laugh And Knew \«-.......
......-«\* We Had Done Crimes Together, That It *\«-......
.....-«\*& Had Been Real... &*\«-.....
....-«\*&@ @&*\«-....
...-«\*&@# #@&*\«-...
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.-«\*&@### ###@&*\«-.
..-«\*&@## ##@&*\«-..
...-«\*&@# I Died By Getting Shot In The Head #@&*\«-...
....-«\*&@ While Ramming The Fence To A Military @&*\«-....
.....-«\*& Facility. By This Time They Had Been &*\«-.....
......-«\* Chasing Me For Days. I Lost Control *\«-......
.......-«\ Over The Car, Crashed It Into A Rock \«-.......
........-« Wall And Flew Out The Windshield. «-........
.........- -.........
.......... And Then I Got Up, And Looked Around. ..........
.........- It Was Dark, Where It Previously Had -.........
........-« Been A Bright Day. Around Me Where «-........
.......-«\ Dozens Of Crashed Cars, All My Car, \«-.......
......-«\* Some On Fire. *\«-......
.....-«\*& &*\«-.....
....-«\*&@ The Ground Was Sticky, Red. @&*\«-....
...-«\*&@# #@&*\«-...
..-«\*&@## And Then I Realized That I Knew This ##@&*\«-..
.-«\*&@### Darkness. I Knew The Way The Sky ###@&*\«-.
..-«\*&@## Touched The Ground. This Was Her Doing! ##@&*\«-..
...-«\*&@# She Was Here! #@&*\«-...
....-«\*&@ @&*\«-....
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