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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.                      , 
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         : 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.                .  
                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
                                                       ¨