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.........-             # tele migraine #            -.........
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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.        ;--.......
......--;†                                          †;--......
.....--;†§   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.                 ##@#§†;--.
..--;†§#@#                                          #@#§†;--..
...--;†§#@      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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.........-   my lunch break is over and i need to   -.........
........--   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.    §†;--.....
....--;†§#                                          #§†;--....
...--;†§#@ 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       -.........
........--              curfew sirens.              --........
.......--;                                          ;--.......
......--;†   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...  #@#§†;--..
...--;†§#@                                          @#§†;--...
....--;†§#  or, in some cases, the houseowner had   #§†;--....
.....--;†§   the window bolts weakened, and when    §†;--.....
......--;†  cleaning up the aftermath would pocket  †;--......
.......--;            their belongings.             ;--.......
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