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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. ##**;;^^^.
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.^=;†*#### 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. ####*†;=^.
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.^=;†*#### 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. ##†;^.....
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.^=;†*#### 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. #**†;;^^..
...^^=††## ##††=^^...
....==††## 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. ####*†;=^.
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.^;†*##### the ground was sticky, red. #####*†;^.
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.^^^^^^;*# 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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