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....~^***£            # tele migraine #             £***^~....
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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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.....~^*£#  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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