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£#§††«....   the so called "third migraine". it's   ....«††§#£
##@£$§†«:.  like a regular migraine but it does not .:«†§$£@##
#@£#$§†«:.   hurt there's no pain, the cosmos is    .:«†§$#£@#
#@£#$§†«:.     there and it's draining the evil     .:«†§$#£@#
#@£#$§†«:.        straight out of the wound.        .:«†§$#£@#
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#@£#$§†«:.   it's massaging your temples, piercing  .:«†§$#£@#
##@£#$§†:.  you, entering your blood, cracking the  .:†§$#£@##
##§«:.....    skull open. a paw grips your brain,   .....:«§##
#$§««.....   plays with it, pulls it out into the   .....««§$#
@££#$§†«:.                 cosmos.                  .:«†§$#££@
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#@£#$§†«:.     there's comets! space oddities.      .:«†§$#£@#
#@£#$§†«:.   solitary oscillations. carrier wave.   .:«†§$#£@#
##@£#§†«:. burned away by the suns radiation until  .:«†§#£@##
#@£#$§†«:.      only the faintest trace remain,     .:«†§$#£@#
#§«.......   eventually caught in the gravity well  .......«§#
#@£#$§†«:.    of some second rate water planet.     .:«†§$#£@#
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#@£#$§†«:.            it's raining sap.             .:«†§$#£@#
#§†††:....       we're getting sweet and wet        ....:†††§#
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#@£#$§†«:.   my lunch break is over and i need to   .:«†§$#£@#
#§«.......   get back to the shop. lynne is there   .......«§#
#@£#$§†«:.  alone and hasn't eaten yet. i take the  .:«†§$#£@#
@##$$§†«:.  back route up from the beach to avoid   .:«†§$$##@
£$†«:.....    the crowd. sing a little to myself.   .....:«†$£
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#$†††«:...  life gets to prosper outside of.£†««« - ...:«†††$#
££#§††:...   suddenly, an acid flashback: i step    ...:††§#££
£#§†«.....   down in my mind (like an open mind /   .....«†§#£
#$§§§†«:..   fractal stinger / bismuth staircase)   ..:«†§§§$#
#@£#$§†«:.   and wade in shadows... surrounded by   .:«†§$#£@#
##§§†:....            memory negatives,             ....:†§§##
#@£#$§†«:.         like uprocessed film....         .:«†§$#£@#
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#@£#$§†«:.             ###«         «###            .:«†§$#£@#
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##@£$§†«:. we're closing for the evening. the shop  .:«†§$£@##
###§†††«:.    is in the bottom floor of a narrow    .:«†††§###
####$§†«:.    mudbrick building, painted teal. we   .:«†§$####
###$†::::. live on the second floor, together with  .::::†$###
#$$§§«....      the owner. as i close the metal     ....«§§$$#
##£#$§†«:.    curtain, behind its characteristic    .:«†§$#£##
####$§†«:.       sharp rattling i can hear the      .:«†§$####
#§«:......              curfew sirens.              ......:«§#
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#@£#$§†«:.   wormy street wolves outside, chasing   .:«†§$#£@#
@@£#$§†«:.     entrances in the dark alleyways,     .:«†§$#£@@
@#$§«.....  wanting in, getting desperate, lapsing  .....«§$#@
@#§§§««...  to search higher, on roofs, climbing on ...««§§§#@
#@£#$§†«:. balconies. and there's bound to be some  .:«†§$#£@#
#@£#$§†«:.   reckless tourist who didn't heed the   .:«†§$#£@#
@££#$§†«:. warnings, never closed their windows...  .:«†§$#££@
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#§«:......  or, in some cases, the houseowner had   ......:«§#
##§«:.....   the window bolts weakened, and when    .....:«§##
£$§†«::...  cleaning up the aftermath would pocket  ...::«†§$£
##£#$§†«:.            their belongings.             .:«†§$#£##
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