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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.          -       
                                                              
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