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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. #..#...#..
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..#......# 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. #....#....
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..#.##.... 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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