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#@%=/~:...            #=#=# mugwort #=#=#           ...:~/=%@#
@%=/~:....            #=#=# ======= #=#=#           ....:~/=%@
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=/~:...... 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).         ....:~/=%@
#@%=/~:...                                          ...:~/=%@#
##@%=/~:..       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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