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...^~*^$¤# I Used To Be A Goth, In My Youth, Doing #¤$^*~^...
....^~*^$¤ Crimes Mostly From Or In My Beloved And ¤$^*~^....
.....^~*^$ 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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