,                                                             
                                                              
                                                         ,    
                                                              
                                                              
             ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"              
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           £¤=««~~»»~~»«»-~«»-««~~-~»«==~=~-«~-=-¤@           
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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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         ¨ £#=~-«~==~»=»~~-~«~«~»-»~-«-~«»--«»~~-£§        .  
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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.                   
                                                           ¨  
                                                              
                                                              
                                                            ^ 
     .