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....#..#.. WE DECIDED TO SMOKE THE DRUG IN A BARN .#.......#
#....#..#. THAT HOLDS GREAT NOSTALGIA FOR US ALL. ..#.......
.#....#..# WE WENT INSIDE AND TO THE HIGHEST #..#......
..#....#.. FLOOR, WHERE WE SAT DOWN IN THE HAY. .#..#.....
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....#....# AFTER A WHILE BEGAN THE COLLECTIVE ...#..#...
.....#.... PROCESS OF ROLLING ANOTHER JOINT, BUT ....#..#..
......#... HERE OUR FRIEND STARTED TO LAUGH THEIR .....#..#.
.......#.. MOST FUCKED UP LAUGH, AND WOULDN'T STOP ......#..#
#.......#. FOR SEVERAL MINUTES. .......#..
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..#....... WHEN THEY CAME TO THEY SAID THIS TO ME: ##.......#
#..#...... OUR FACES HAD BEEN SHAPED LIKE .##.......
.#..#..... PENTAGRAMS IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BARN, .###......
..#..#.... WE WERE LONG WORMS, WITH HAIRY TUBULAR .#.##.....
...#..#... BODIES DANCING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, ...###....
....#..#.. BEGGING FOR CIGARETTES... ...#.##...
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.##....... OUR LINGERING CAME TO AN END WHEN WE ...#.....#
.###...... HEADED INTO THE CITY CORE. FOUR HOURS ....#.....
.#.##..... AFTER OUR FIRST TOKE WE FOUND OURSELVES .....#....
...###.... IN A DARK SLOPE BENEATH A GIGANTIC #.....#...
...#.##... WATER TOWER. .#.....#..
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.....#.##. THE TIME WAS IN THE POST-TWELVES OF THE #..#.....#
#......### NIGHT WHEN WE ROLLED A JOINT WITH PURE .#..#.....
.#.....#.# CANNABINOID-LEAF, NO TOBACCO, AND I WAS ..#..#....
..#......# THROWN INTO A NIGHTMARE. ...#..#...
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....#..... AS I WATCHED, THE CITY BECAME A WALL, #....#..#.
.....#.... AND I WAS HANGING ABOVE THE WHILE WORLD ##....#..#
#.....#... IN A STRANGE AND UNDERWORLDLY FOREST, .##....#..
.#.....#.. PUSHED UPWARDS AGAINST THE GROUND BELOW. .###....#.
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#..#.....# I WAS THEN STRUCK WITH THE MOST ...###....
.#..#..... POWERFUL FEAR. A FORCE COMPELLED ME TO ...#.##...
..#..#.... SUBVOCALIZE, BUT THE WORDS WERE NOT MY .....###..
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##....#..# FLESH » ALIKE » AND » THE » LIGHT » .........#
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.###....#. » DEVOUR » YOU » YOU » WERE » CHOSEN » .#........
.#.##....# YOU » WERE » CHOSEN » A » VERY » LONG » ..#.......
...###.... TIME » AGO » #..#......
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.....###.. I COULD NOT MOVE, AND MY VOICE WAS ..#..#....
.....#.##. SMALL WHEN I ASKED MY FRIENDS WHY WE ...#..#...
.......### HAD DONE THIS, HOW SUCH EVENTS COULD ....#..#..
.......#.# TAKE PLACE. BUT MY FRIENDS WERE #....#..#.
.........# COMPLETELY STILL AND SILENT. .#....#..#
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.#........ AND THEN, ASTRAL PROJECTION. I SAW THE ...#....#.
..#....... CITY FROM ABOVE, FROM ABOVE THE CLOUDS, ....#....#
#..#...... A SPACE STATION... AND THE TOWER, A .....#....
.#..#..... MONOLITH, UNEARTHLY WHITE, ANTENNA TO ......#...
..#..#.... SPEAK TO ME... THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEW. .......#..
...#..#... I SAW MYSELF DOWN THERE, BODY SHAKING, #.......#.
....#..#.. SPEAKING GIBBERISH. .#.......#
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.....#.... HERE'S A WHOLE BLOCK OF TIME ERADICATED ....#..#..
......#... FROM MY MIND, NO DOUBT EATEN BY THE .....#..#.
.......#.. DISEASE, BUT WHEN I CAME TO I HAD COME ......#..#
#.......#. TO TERMS WITH MY IMMINENT DEATH. THE .......#..
.#.......# CITY-ENTITY WANTED ME GONE, BY WAY OF #.......#.
..#....... PSYCHIC EROSION AND COLD TEMPERATURES. ##.......#
#..#...... IT COULD'VE BEEN BELOW ZERO. WE GOT UP .##.......
.#..#..... AND WANDERED THE STREETS TO KEEP WARM .###......
..#..#.... UNTIL THE SUN FINALLY ROSE. .#.##.....
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