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.#...#.##. 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 ..#.......
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.#........ HEADED INTO THE CITY CORE. FOUR HOURS .#......#.
..#....... AFTER OUR FIRST TOKE WE FOUND OURSELVES ..#......#
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.#..#..... WATER TOWER. ....#.....
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...#..#... THE TIME WAS IN THE POST-TWELVES OF THE ##....#...
....#..#.. 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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.##....#.. POWERFUL FEAR. A FORCE COMPELLED ME TO #...###..#
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###..#.##. WILL ~ FIND ~ YOU ~ THE ~ LIGHT ~ WILL #..#.##...
#.##...### ~ DEVOUR ~ YOU ~ YOU ~ WERE ~ CHOSEN ~ ##...###..
..###..#.# YOU ~ WERE ~ CHOSEN ~ A ~ VERY ~ LONG ~ ###..#.##.
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#.##...### A SPACE STATION... AND THE TOWER, A #....###..
..###..#.# MONOLITH, UNEARTHLY WHITE, ANTENNA TO .#...#.##.
..#.##...# SPEAK TO ME... THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VIEW. ..#....###
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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 #.........
..###..#.. AND WANDERED THE STREETS TO KEEP WARM .#........
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