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             ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"              
                                                              
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           ¤£-»=«~»~--»=-~--»«~=~~»~-«-»~~~-~~~~~£#           
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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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