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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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