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...####.## 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.        ..######..
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...#...###  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   .#.#.##.#.
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..##.#...#     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  .#.##.....
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##..##.###             it's raining sap.            .#..#...#.
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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.   ....##...#
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.#.#.##.##  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   ###.#.....
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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       #.....#.##
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##.##.#...   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...  #.##.##.##
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###....##.  or, in some cases, the houseowner had   .##.##.#.#
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.##..####.  cleaning up the aftermath would pocket  ##.##...#.
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