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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 ~ ..........
########## WILL ~ FIND ~ YOU ~ THE ~ LIGHT ~ WILL ##########
########## ~ 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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