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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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