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##...#.##. WE WENT INSIDE AND TO THE HIGHEST .........#
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...###...# PROCESS OF ROLLING ANOTHER JOINT, BUT .#........
...#.##... HERE OUR FRIEND STARTED TO LAUGH THEIR ..#.......
.....###.. MOST FUCKED UP LAUGH, AND WOULDN'T STOP #..#......
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.......#.# WHEN THEY CAME TO THEY SAID THIS TO ME: .###..#...
.........# OUR FACES HAD BEEN SHAPED LIKE .#.##..#..
.........# PENTAGRAMS IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BARN, ...###..#.
.......... WE WERE LONG WORMS, WITH HAIRY TUBULAR ...#.##..#
#......... BODIES DANCING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, .....###..
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...#.##..# AFTER OUR FIRST TOKE WE FOUND OURSELVES ###..#.##.
.....###.. IN A DARK SLOPE BENEATH A GIGANTIC #.##...###
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.###.....# NIGHT WHEN WE ROLLED A JOINT WITH PURE ##..#.##..
.#.##....# CANNABINOID-LEAF, NO TOBACCO, AND I WAS .##...###.
...###.... THROWN INTO A NIGHTMARE. .###..#.##
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##...###.. AS I WATCHED, THE CITY BECAME A WALL, ...###..#.
###..#.##. AND I WAS HANGING ABOVE THE WHILE WORLD #..#.##...
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..###..#.# PUSHED UPWARDS AGAINST THE GROUND BELOW. ..#..#.##.
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#...###..# I WAS THEN STRUCK WITH THE MOST ....#..#.#
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#..#.##... FLESH « ALIKE « AND « THE « LIGHT « ....#.....
.#...###.. WILL « FIND « YOU « THE « LIGHT « WILL .....#....
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...#...### YOU « WERE « CHOSEN « A « VERY « LONG « ##.....#..
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#.....#..# I COULD NOT MOVE, AND MY VOICE WAS .#.##.....
.#.....#.. SMALL WHEN I ASKED MY FRIENDS WHY WE ...###....
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...#.....# TAKE PLACE. BUT MY FRIENDS WERE #....###..
....#..... COMPLETELY STILL AND SILENT. ##...#.##.
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#.....#... AND THEN, ASTRAL PROJECTION. I SAW THE .###...#.#
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.#.##..... SPEAK TO ME... THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEW. .....###..
...###.... I SAW MYSELF DOWN THERE, BODY SHAKING, .....#.##.
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...#.##... FROM MY MIND, NO DOUBT EATEN BY THE ..#.......
.....###.. DISEASE, BUT WHEN I CAME TO I HAD COME #..#......
.....#.##. TO TERMS WITH MY IMMINENT DEATH. THE ##..#.....
.......### CITY-ENTITY WANTED ME GONE, BY WAY OF .##..#....
.......#.# PSYCHIC EROSION AND COLD TEMPERATURES. .###..#...
.........# IT COULD'VE BEEN BELOW ZERO. WE GOT UP .#.##..#..
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