...~-/^%#¶ ¶#%^/-~...
..~-/^%#¶# #¶#%^/-~..
.~-/^%#¶## ##¶#%^/-~.
..~-/^%#¶# #¶#%^/-~..
...~-/^%#¶ ¶#%^/-~...
....~-/^%# #^#^# mugwort #^#^# #%^/-~....
.....~-/^% #^#^# ======= #^#^# %^/-~.....
......~-/^ ^/-~......
.......~-/ short plant that yearns for my liver. /-~.......
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.........~ 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. ^/-~......
.....~-/^% %^/-~.....
....~-/^%# 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. ##¶#%^/-~.
..~-/^%#¶# #¶#%^/-~..
...~-/^%#¶ there's a deafening slience from the ¶#%^/-~...
....~-/^%# scientific community on its toxicity #%^/-~....
.....~-/^% (no research, if you believe) %^/-~.....
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