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.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£££ fat cap £££§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ..... && ££ && ££ && ££ && ..... ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§### in gardens among stones along the river ###§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## grows the mushroom. between ferns and ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## horsemint grows the mushroom. along the ##£§&††~,.
..,,~~††§£ creek, with a reddish cap and white £§††~~,,..
.,~††§£### stem and quirky gleam in its eyes grows ###£§††~,.
.,~††&§£## the mushroom. ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ..... ##£§&††~,.
.....,,~†§ §†~,,.....
.,~††&§£## i am dreaming. a package has arrived. ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## through the park i go to pick it up ##£§&††~,.
..,~~††&§# from a bitter lady. a slot in a wall, #§&††~~,..
.,~††&§£££ lady inside, me outside with the rest £££§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## of the world. ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ..... ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
...~††&&£# delivered is a ny fat cap, a nozzle (or #£&&††~...
....~††††§ "cap") for spray paint cans. §††††~....
.,††&§£### ###£§&††,.
.....,~†§£ through young forest, thin and rubbery £§†~,.....
.....,††&£ whips shoot up from the earth. kirskale £&††,.....
....,††††§ around my feet. concrete trenches, §††††,....
.,~††&§£## abandoned gray walls. i shall try the ##£§&††~,.
,~††&§£### new nozzle here. ###£§&††~,
.,~††§£### ###£§††~,.
....~~†††§ the paint inside comes out, it comes §†††~~....
.,,,~~†&&§ like a massage shower, it comes like a §&&†~~,,,.
.,~††&§£## thick and slow beam. rich with red and ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## gooey paint. ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## doesn't hit anything. it keeps going ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&£### and never reaches the walls. it's ###£&††~,.
.,~††&§£## forever falling, but nothing will be ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## stained. ##£§&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
.....,~†§§ ..... && ££ && ££ && ££ && ..... §§†~,.....
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
..,~†††&£# i think to myself: #£&†††~,..
.,~††&&§§£ "new york fat cap" is weird £§§&&††~,.
.,~††&§£## ##£§&††~,.
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