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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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