.                                                    ,  
                                                              
                                                              
              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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