She was an adderall addled techno gnostic<\/p>\n
having graduated from wicca and the baby witches<\/p>\n
who still hung around the apartment talking about incense<\/p>\n
and the men they were screwing and how awful they were.<\/p>\n
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The occult is not fun or cool<\/p>\n
and mostly bores people or perplexes them<\/p>\n
her new late night rituals and readings<\/p>\n
had me putting crucifixes on my bedroom door.<\/p>\n
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It took one bad salvia trip<\/p>\n
and she was screaming at me over the phone<\/p>\n
about how we were on a prison planet<\/p>\n
that not even death could free us from the Demiurge.<\/p>\n
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It was a unique despair<\/p>\n
the idea of the eternal matrix<\/p>\n
of endless repetition<\/p>\n
and knowing it.<\/p>\n
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Made worse by the pills<\/p>\n
providing intensity and laser focus<\/p>\n
staring at spots in the air<\/p>\n
like she could very well see the grid.<\/p>\n
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I drug her outside one Saturday morning<\/p>\n
after dumping the pills and tomes in the trash<\/p>\n
I pulled up some dewy grass and closed it into her hand<\/p>\n
‘This is real,’ I said\u00a0 ‘And so are you.’<\/p>\n
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