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..«†%*&£@#   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     #@£&*%†«..
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......«%%&  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   @£*%%†....
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......«†*£     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.     ##@&*%†«..
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....«%%*£@             it's raining sap.            @£*%%«....
..«†%*&£@#       we're getting sweet and wet        #@£&*%†«..
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......«%%&   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.   ##@&*%†«..
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..«†%*&£##  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....         &%†.......
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......«†*&  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.              &*%«......
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..«†%*&£££   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...  &*†.......
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..«††%%**&  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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