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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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