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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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