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#..######. WE DECIDED TO SMOKE THE DRUG IN A BARN #..##..###
....####.. THAT HOLDS GREAT NOSTALGIA FOR US ALL. ........##
.##..##... WE WENT INSIDE AND TO THE HIGHEST #######...
........## FLOOR, WHERE WE SAT DOWN IN THE HAY. .#####..##
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..####..## AFTER A WHILE BEGAN THE COLLECTIVE ...#..####
...##....# PROCESS OF ROLLING ANOTHER JOINT, BUT ##.....##.
##....##.. HERE OUR FRIEND STARTED TO LAUGH THEIR ...###....
...##....# MOST FUCKED UP LAUGH, AND WOULDN'T STOP ##..#..##.
##....##.. FOR SEVERAL MINUTES. ..........
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##....#### WHEN THEY CAME TO THEY SAID THIS TO ME: ########..
...##..### OUR FACES HAD BEEN SHAPED LIKE #######...
##......## PENTAGRAMS IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BARN, ######..##
#..####..# WE WERE LONG WORMS, WITH HAIRY TUBULAR #####....#
....##.... BODIES DANCING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, ####..##..
###....### BEGGING FOR CIGARETTES... ###......#
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.######..# OUR LINGERING CAME TO AN END WHEN WE #..######.
..####.... HEADED INTO THE CITY CORE. FOUR HOURS ....####..
#..##..##. AFTER OUR FIRST TOKE WE FOUND OURSELVES .##..##..#
.......... IN A DARK SLOPE BENEATH A GIGANTIC ..........
########## WATER TOWER. ##########
########## ##########
########## THE TIME WAS IN THE POST-TWELVES OF THE ##########
########## NIGHT WHEN WE ROLLED A JOINT WITH PURE ##########
########## CANNABINOID-LEAF, NO TOBACCO, AND I WAS ##########
########## THROWN INTO A NIGHTMARE. ##########
########## ##########
########## AS I WATCHED, THE CITY BECAME A WALL, ##########
########## AND I WAS HANGING ABOVE THE WHILE WORLD ##########
########## IN A STRANGE AND UNDERWORLDLY FOREST, ##########
########## PUSHED UPWARDS AGAINST THE GROUND BELOW. ##########
########## ##########
########## I WAS THEN STRUCK WITH THE MOST ##########
########## POWERFUL FEAR. A FORCE COMPELLED ME TO ##########
########## SUBVOCALIZE, BUT THE WORDS WERE NOT MY ##########
########## OWN: ##########
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########## ~ IT ~ SHINES ~ THROUGH ~ EARTH ~ AND ~ ##########
########## FLESH ~ ALIKE ~ AND ~ THE ~ LIGHT ~ ##########
########## WILL ~ FIND ~ YOU ~ THE ~ LIGHT ~ WILL ##########
########## ~ DEVOUR ~ YOU ~ YOU ~ WERE ~ CHOSEN ~ ##########
########## YOU ~ WERE ~ CHOSEN ~ A ~ VERY ~ LONG ~ ##########
########## TIME ~ AGO ~ ##########
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########## I COULD NOT MOVE, AND MY VOICE WAS ##########
########## SMALL WHEN I ASKED MY FRIENDS WHY WE ##########
########## HAD DONE THIS, HOW SUCH EVENTS COULD ##########
########## TAKE PLACE. BUT MY FRIENDS WERE ##########
########## COMPLETELY STILL AND SILENT. ##########
########## ##########
########## AND THEN, ASTRAL PROJECTION. I SAW THE ##########
########## CITY FROM ABOVE, FROM ABOVE THE CLOUDS, ##########
########## A SPACE STATION... AND THE TOWER, A ##########
########## MONOLITH, UNEARTHLY WHITE, ANTENNA TO ##########
########## SPEAK TO ME... THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEW. ##########
########## I SAW MYSELF DOWN THERE, BODY SHAKING, ##########
########## SPEAKING GIBBERISH. ##########
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########## HERE'S A WHOLE BLOCK OF TIME ERADICATED ##########
########## FROM MY MIND, NO DOUBT EATEN BY THE ##########
########## DISEASE, BUT WHEN I CAME TO I HAD COME ##########
########## TO TERMS WITH MY IMMINENT DEATH. THE ##########
########## CITY-ENTITY WANTED ME GONE, BY WAY OF ##########
########## PSYCHIC EROSION AND COLD TEMPERATURES. ##########
########## IT COULD'VE BEEN BELOW ZERO. WE GOT UP ##########
########## AND WANDERED THE STREETS TO KEEP WARM ##########
########## UNTIL THE SUN FINALLY ROSE. ##########
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