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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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