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.           
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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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