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...,,†††£# 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.        ##@#£^†-,.
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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   ##@#£^†-,.
.....--^£@                  cosmos.                 @£^--.....
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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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