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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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