.                                                     
                                                    ¨         
                                                              
             ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"              
                                                         ¨    
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           £&~«==--«~==~»«-«~=~»««-=«««~~-»~~~»~-£&           
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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.                   
                                                             .
                                                              
                                                              
                                                           †