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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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