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              ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"      §      
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           still unknown  to me, other than through           
              dreams*. apparently made for making             
           holes. they may  be dark and monochrome.   ^       
         ¨              they may not.                         
                                                              
           white  powder,  dosed  by  way  of  key?           
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           *a  red  cylinder,  wide  as  a  finger.           
    ¨           glossy freckled ceramics, with                
                something organic inside, being               
,          corrupted before your eyes  - turning to     ,     
     .     ash, but  there's no flame. you  hold it           
           up  to  your  nose,  suck it  in with  a      ,    
           sharp  inhale.  exit  to  the   balcony.           
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   .       here on the  fifth  floor, with  a  view           
           over  the  parking   lot,  things  start           
                 folding into each other, like                
            collapsing a cardboard box. dimensions            
    ¨        becoming flat and adjacent. pressed              
           into each  other. creases  are flattened           
           out,  distances  disappear, the world is         ¨ 
           mangled  down  to  two  dimensions.  and           
  .        suddenly  light  falls  on  the  edge of           
           everything  rather than the  surface: it           
                   all goes completely dark.                  
                                                              
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