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       ¨      ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"             
                                                              
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              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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