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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.                   
                                                              
       .