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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.