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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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