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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. .:-::%%%
&$:-:..... .....:-:$&
##&%%--::. 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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