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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.                   
                                                     ^        
                                                              
        ^                                             .