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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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