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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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