.....-*$@@ @@$*-.....
.....-*@@# #@@*-.....
..-/*$@### ###@$*/-..
.....--*$@ @$*--.....
..-/*$@@## ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## ###- -### ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## # # ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## # tele migraine # ##@@$*/-..
.....-//*@ # # @*//-.....
..-/*$@@## ###- -### ##@@$*/-..
....../$$@ @$$/......
..-/*$@@## the so called "third migraine". it's ##@@$*/-..
...../**@@ like a regular migraine but it does not @@**/.....
..-/*@@### hurt there's no pain, the cosmos is ###@@*/-..
..-/*@@### there and it's draining the evil ###@@*/-..
..-/*$@@## straight out of the wound. ##@@$*/-..
....//$@@# #@@$//....
..-//**@@@ it's massaging your temples, piercing @@@**//-..
....-*$$@@ you, entering your blood, cracking the @@$$*-....
....-**@@@ skull open. a paw grips your brain, @@@**-....
..-/***$@@ plays with it, pulls it out into the @@$***/-..
..-/*$@@@@ cosmos. @@@@$*/-..
.-/*$@@### ###@@$*/-.
.....-/$@@ there's comets! space oddities. @@$/-.....
..-/*$@@## solitary oscillations. carrier wave. ##@@$*/-..
....../$@# burned away by the suns radiation until #@$/......
..-/*$@@## only the faintest trace remain, ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## eventually caught in the gravity well ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## of some second rate water planet. ##@@$*/-..
.......-*@ @*-.......
..-/*$$@@@ it's raining sap. @@@$$*/-..
..-/*$@@## we're getting sweet and wet ##@@$*/-..
..-/$@@### ###@@$/-..
..-/*$@@## ###- -### ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$$@@@ my lunch break is over and i need to @@@$$*/-..
....../*$@ get back to the shop. lynne is there @$*/......
..-/*$$@@@ alone and hasn't eaten yet. i take the @@@$$*/-..
..-/*$@@@@ back route up from the beach to avoid @@@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## the crowd. sing a little to myself. ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$$@@# life gets to prosper outside of.@/--- - #@@$$*/-..
..-/*$@@@# suddenly, an acid flashback: i step #@@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## down in my mind (like an open mind / ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## fractal stinger / bismuth staircase) ##@@$*/-..
......//$@ and wade in shadows... surrounded by @$//......
..-/*$@@## memory negatives, ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## like uprocessed film.... ##@@$*/-..
../*$@@### ###@@$*/..
..-/*$@@## ###- -### ##@@$*/-..
.....-//$@ @$//-.....
.......-*@ we're closing for the evening. the shop @*-.......
..-/*$$@@@ is in the bottom floor of a narrow @@@$$*/-..
..-/*@@### mudbrick building, painted teal. we ###@@*/-..
..-/*$@### live on the second floor, together with ###@$*/-..
..-/*$@@@@ the owner. as i close the metal @@@@$*/-..
....//$$@# curtain, behind its characteristic #@$$//....
..-/*$@@@@ sharp rattling i can hear the @@@@$*/-..
../*$@@### curfew sirens. ###@@$*/..
..-/*$@@## ##@@$*/-..
..-/*@@### 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 ###@@*/-..
..-/*$@@## warnings, never closed their windows... ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@## ##@@$*/-..
..-/*$@@@@ or, in some cases, the houseowner had @@@@$*/-..
.....-**@@ the window bolts weakened, and when @@**-.....
..-/*$@@## cleaning up the aftermath would pocket ##@@$*/-..
.-/*$@@### their belongings. ###@@$*/-.
..-/*$$@@@ @@@$$*/-..
..-/*$$$@@ @@$$$*/-..
....../$@# #@$/......
......-/$@ @$/-......
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