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......~/=£ i used to be a goth, in my youth, doing £=/~......
.....~/=£# crimes mostly from or in my beloved and #£=/~.....
....~/=£#¶ trusted car, and sometimes my mothers ¶#£=/~....
...~/=£#¶# barn. we lived just outside town, a #¶#£=/~...
..~/=£#¶## grove at the end of a dirt road, and ##¶#£=/~..
.~/=£#¶### the barn was placed so you could just ###¶#£=/~.
..~/=£#¶## make out the surrounding fields through ##¶#£=/~..
...~/=£#¶# the trees. #¶#£=/~...
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.....~/=£# my car was black and loud, both the #£=/~.....
......~/=£ engine and the way the parts didn't £=/~......
.......~/= really stick together. i took my =/~.......
........~/ crimefriend for rides, in the dark, the /~........
.........~ eternal dark that seemed to surround ~.........
.......... us. she seemed to cast this veil over ..........
.........~ everything. her black skirt reached to ~.........
........~/ her knees but then somehow also back /~........
.......~/= around, enveloping all my memories of =/~.......
......~/=£ our time together. £=/~......
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....~/=£#¶ there was blood everywhere. sometimes ¶#£=/~....
...~/=£#¶# the blood was her red lipstick or her #¶#£=/~...
..~/=£#¶## checkered shirt. she was on television. ##¶#£=/~..
.~/=£#¶### we did crime, and we made weird ###¶#£=/~.
..~/=£#¶## structures in the barn, tall pillars of ##¶#£=/~..
...~/=£#¶# dark wood, ladders and plateaus, fires #¶#£=/~...
....~/=£#¶ and fairy lights. we would sleep there ¶#£=/~....
.....~/=£# and drink there and she would go in the #£=/~.....
......~/=£ television. £=/~......
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........~/ and then the sun came out, and she went /~........
.........~ away. everything changed... i yearned, ~.........
.......... and the world became dull around me. ..........
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........~/ i stopped doing crime, except when /~........
.......~/= necessarry. things somehow seemed like =/~.......
......~/=£ they were allright, moulded in place, £=/~......
.....~/=£# and i loathed it ------ i missed her #£=/~.....
....~/=£#¶ so much. ¶#£=/~....
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....~/=£#¶ i searched for her, but nobody had any ¶#£=/~....
.....~/=£# memories of her. not so much of me #£=/~.....
......~/=£ either, from the time we were together. £=/~......
.......~/= my mother said i kept to myself in the =/~.......
........~/ barn, or in the car. /~........
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.......... sometimes i could still see her ..........
.........~ flashing by on the tv in the barn. ~.........
........~/ everything was black then, for a /~........
.......~/= moment. i remembered her laugh and knew =/~.......
......~/=£ we had done crimes together, that it £=/~......
.....~/=£# had been real... #£=/~.....
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...~/=£#¶# i died by getting shot in the head #¶#£=/~...
....~/=£#¶ while ramming the fence to a military ¶#£=/~....
.....~/=£# facility. by this time they had been #£=/~.....
......~/=£ chasing me for days. i lost control £=/~......
.......~/= over the car, crashed it into a rock =/~.......
........~/ wall and flew out the windshield. /~........
.........~ ~.........
.......... and then i got up, and looked around. ..........
.........~ it was dark, where it previously had ~.........
........~/ been a bright day. around me where /~........
.......~/= dozens of crashed cars, all my car, =/~.......
......~/=£ some on fire. £=/~......
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....~/=£#¶ the ground was sticky, red. ¶#£=/~....
...~/=£#¶# #¶#£=/~...
..~/=£#¶## and then i realized that i knew this ##¶#£=/~..
.~/=£#¶### darkness. i knew the way the sky ###¶#£=/~.
..~/=£#¶## touched the ground. this was her doing! ##¶#£=/~..
...~/=£#¶# she was here! #¶#£=/~...
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