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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. .....-:£@@
@#£^^^:~-. .-~:^^^£#@
@@@#£^:~-. 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 .-~:^£#@@#
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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. .-~:^£#@@#
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#££^^^:~-. 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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