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.                ¨       
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           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.