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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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