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.......^=†            @*@*@ mugwort @*@*@           †=^.......
......^=†*            @*@*@ ======= @*@*@           *†=^......
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....^=†**& short  plant that  yearns  for my liver. &**†=^....
...^=†**&#                                          #&**†=^...
..^=†**&## a  promise  and  a  tease,  spread  well ##&**†=^..
.^=†**&###  throughout waking life, along ditches   ###&**†=^.
..^=†**&## and ethereal  plains  (my  eyes hit  the ##&**†=^..
...^=†**&# treeline  behind the house. whats beyond #&**†=^...
....^=†**&      them? abandoned quarry, slowly      &**†=^....
.....^=†** reclaimed. and there at the  edge of  my **†=^.....
......^=†*         daydream, grows mugwort).        *†=^......
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........^=       gray-green suit with frills.       =^........
.........^ inverted tripod. gray coins in the wind. ^.........
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.........^   there are whispers about... medicinal  ^.........
........^= qualities.  i   forget   now   if   it's =^........
.......^=† comparable to dreamroot or to  cannabis, †=^.......
......^=†* but    it's    one    of     the    two. *†=^......
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....^=†**& there's  a  deafening  slience  from the &**†=^....
...^=†**&#   scientific community on its toxicity   #&**†=^...
..^=†**&##       (no research, if you believe)      ##&**†=^..
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