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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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