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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.