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,,,,^«††%& THEY TELL  ME: "WE ARE  GOING TO  SHRINK &%††«^,,,,
,,,^«††%&¶ YOU." I  DON'T  QUITE LIKE  THE TONE  IN ¶&%††«^,,,
,,^«††%&¶# THEIR  VOICES, LIKE THEY ARE RESTRAINING #¶&%††«^,,
,^«††%&¶## THEMSELVES.  THERE IS  A HUNGER  IN THEM ##¶&%††«^,
,,^«††%&¶# AND  IT WANTS  ME  TO SHRINK.  AND  WHAT #¶&%††«^,,
,,,^«††%&¶ REALLY  IRKS  ME  IS  THAT   SO  DO   I. ¶&%††«^,,,
,,,,^«††%&                                          &%††«^,,,,
,,,,,^«††% THEY  GIVE  ME WRISTBANDS  AND  ANKLETS, %††«^,,,,,
,,,,^«††%& MADE  OF   SOME  STRANGE   STONE.  THEIR &%††«^,,,,
,,,^«††%&¶      SURFACE IS SWIRLING, LIKE DARK      ¶&%††«^,,,
,,^«††%&¶#   THUNDERSTORMS TRAPPED IN GLASS, LIKE   #¶&%††«^,,
,^«††%&¶## WINDOWS INTO  A SMALLER WORLD,  CLOSE TO ##¶&%††«^,
,,^«††%&¶# MY  BODY  SO  THAT  IT  CAN  SEE CLEARLY #¶&%††«^,,
,,,^«††%&¶             WHATS IN STORE.              ¶&%††«^,,,
,,,,^«††%&                                          &%††«^,,,,
,,,,,^«††% THEY GIVE ME FOOD: PRAWN-LIKE BUGS  THAT %††«^,,,,,
,,,,^«††%& MAKE MY  TONGUE  CURL WITH SATISFACTION. &%††«^,,,,
,,,^«††%&¶ "OUT OF THIS WORLD", I THINK, HAVING  NO ¶&%††«^,,,
,,^«††%&¶# FRAME OF  REFERENCE. I EAT ONLY TWO, BUT #¶&%††«^,,
,^«††%&¶##      THE BUGS LEAVE ME SUSPICIOUSLY      ##¶&%††«^,
,,^«††%&¶#                SATISFIED.                #¶&%††«^,,
,,,^«††%&¶                                          ¶&%††«^,,,
,,,,^«††%& THEY MEASURE MY  CLOTHES. "YOU ARE GOING &%††«^,,,,
,,,,,^«††% TO  BECOME ABOUT HALF AS BIG", THEY TELL %††«^,,,,,
,,,,^«††%&  ME, BARELY CONTROLLING THEMSELVES WITH  &%††«^,,,,
,,,^«††%&¶              ANTICIPATION.               ¶&%††«^,,,
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