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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.             ¨    
                                                              
        ¨