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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.                        
                                                              
           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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