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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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