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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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