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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.                §        
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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.                   
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