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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.                  
                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
    ¨