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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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