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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.                        
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           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.           
                                                              
           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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