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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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#£&%*/«:..             ###«         «###            ..:«/*%&£#
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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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