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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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