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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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