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........-= ^ Mirage Class Goth Gf ^ =-........
.......-=: ^ ^ :=-.......
......-=:^ ^:=====---. .---=====:^ ^:=-......
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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. ^:=-......
.......-=: :=-.......
........-= 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. #@¤^:=-...
..-=:^¤@## ##@¤^:=-..
.-=:^¤@### 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. :=-.......
......-=:^ ^:=-......
.....-=:^¤ 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. -.........
........-= =-........
.......-=: 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. #@¤^:=-...
..-=:^¤@## ##@¤^:=-..
.-=:^¤@### 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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