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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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