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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.