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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.                   
                                                              
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