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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.         , 
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           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.                  
                                                              
                                                              
                                                      ¨