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@###$$=~:¨ crimes mostly from or in my beloved and ¨:~=$$###@
####$$=~:¨ trusted car, and sometimes my mothers ¨:~=$$####
####$$=~:¨ barn. we lived just outside town, a ¨:~=$$####
#@##$$=~:¨ grove at the end of a dirt road, and ¨:~=$$##@#
#@##$$=~:¨ the barn was placed so you could just ¨:~=$$##@#
#@##$$=~:¨ make out the surrounding fields through ¨:~=$$##@#
####$$=~:¨ the trees. ¨:~=$$####
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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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####$$=~:¨ i died by getting shot in the head ¨:~=$$####
#@##$$=~:¨ while ramming the fence to a military ¨:~=$$##@#
#@##$$=~:¨ facility. by this time they had been ¨:~=$$##@#
####$$=~:¨ chasing me for days. i lost control ¨:~=$$####
#@##$$=~:¨ over the car, crashed it into a rock ¨:~=$$##@#
@#$$~:¨¨¨¨ wall and flew out the windshield. ¨¨¨¨:~$$#@
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@#$$~~:¨¨¨ and then i got up, and looked around. ¨¨¨:~~$$#@
#@##$$=~:¨ it was dark, where it previously had ¨:~=$$##@#
##@#$$=~:¨ been a bright day. around me where ¨:~=$$#@##
@#$=:¨¨¨¨¨ dozens of crashed cars, all my car, ¨¨¨¨¨:=$#@
###$$$=~:¨ some on fire. ¨:~=$$$###
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##$$=:¨¨¨¨ the ground was sticky, red. ¨¨¨¨:=$$##
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#@##$$=~:¨ and then i realized that i knew this ¨:~=$$##@#
#$~~:¨¨¨¨¨ darkness. i knew the way the sky ¨¨¨¨¨:~~$#
@###$$=~:¨ touched the ground. this was her doing! ¨:~=$$###@
####$$=~:¨ she was here! ¨:~=$$####
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