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.-=:%£&¶@# cold boiling asphalt and #@¶&£%:=-.
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.-=:%£&¶@# bellowing their manifest, in the rain, #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ in the dark, @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ and something followed me out, a @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# yearning. a memory of being touched by #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ a ray from a raspberry sun. still @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# there, everything would be gritty and #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ full of tar. rain upon it. but then a @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# few bright and colorful anomalies. and #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ a promise for more. @¶&£%:=-..
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..-=:%£&¶@ like waking up with a business card in @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# your pocket... #@¶&£%:=-.
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.-=:%£&¶@# a feather boa wrapped around a velvet #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ lizard, surfacing for milliseconds at a @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# time, calling, tugging at my arms. #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ begging me to sink back down and be @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# with them, with their kind. easy to get #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ washed away from the tether, from the @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# way back up. #@¶&£%:=-.
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..-=:%£&¶@ but i cannot go. the consequences would @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# be too large. especially since i'm in #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ the work mill and they've got their @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# eyes on me already. the feeling will #@¶&£%:=-.
..-=:%£&¶@ wane, and i will miss it, and cease to @¶&£%:=-..
.-=:%£&¶@# understand. like every day. #@¶&£%:=-.
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