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,,,,,^»††£ cold boiling asphalt and £††»^,,,,,
,,,,^»††£# crimson emergency flares... #£††»^,,,,
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,,,,^»††£# they were tearing down statues, and #£††»^,,,,
,,,,,^»††£ bellowing their manifest, in the rain, £††»^,,,,,
,,,,,,^»†† in the dark, ††»^,,,,,,
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,,,,,,^»†† and something followed me out, a ††»^,,,,,,
,,,,,^»††£ yearning. a memory of being touched by £††»^,,,,,
,,,,^»††£# a ray from a raspberry sun. still #£††»^,,,,
,,,^»††£## there, everything would be gritty and ##£††»^,,,
,,^»††£### full of tar. rain upon it. but then a ###£††»^,,
,^»††£#### few bright and colorful anomalies. and ####£††»^,
,,^»††£### a promise for more. ###£††»^,,
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,,,,^»††£# like waking up with a business card in #£††»^,,,,
,,,,,^»††£ your pocket... £††»^,,,,,
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,,,,,,,^»† a feather boa wrapped around a velvet †»^,,,,,,,
,,,,,,^»†† lizard, surfacing for milliseconds at a ††»^,,,,,,
,,,,,^»††£ time, calling, tugging at my arms. £††»^,,,,,
,,,,^»††£# begging me to sink back down and be #£††»^,,,,
,,,^»††£## with them, with their kind. easy to get ##£††»^,,,
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,,,,^»††£# but i cannot go. the consequences would #£††»^,,,,
,,,,,^»††£ be too large. especially since i'm in £††»^,,,,,
,,,,,,^»†† the work mill and they've got their ††»^,,,,,,
,,,,,,,^»† eyes on me already. the feeling will †»^,,,,,,,
,,,,,,^»†† wane, and i will miss it, and cease to ††»^,,,,,,
,,,,,^»††£ understand. like every day. £††»^,,,,,
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