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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.           
      .                                                       
           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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