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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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