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.:~††$&###   the so called "third migraine". it's   ###&$††~:.
.:~†††$&##  like a regular migraine but it does not ##&$†††~:.
.:~††$&###   hurt there's no pain, the cosmos is    ###&$††~:.
.....:††$&     there and it's draining the evil     &$††:.....
.:~††$&###        straight out of the wound.        ###&$††~:.
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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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...:†††$##   get back to the shop. lynne is there   ##$†††:...
.:~††$&###  alone and hasn't eaten yet. i take the  ###&$††~:.
.:~††$&###   back route up from the beach to avoid  ###&$††~:.
:~††$&####    the crowd. sing a little to myself.   ####&$††~:
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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      &†~:......
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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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.:~††$&###   the window bolts weakened, and when    ###&$††~:.
....~††$&&  cleaning up the aftermath would pocket  &&$††~....
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