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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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