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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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