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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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