$                                                  ,       
                                                    ,         
             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?           
                                                              
           &                                      ¤           
        ,  ##»~=~«=»~=»«»==«»=-~~«-«~-«~=»»«-~«~~&§           
           §                                      &           
                                                              
           *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.                   
                                                              
                                                              
                                                             .
                                                              
                                                            ^