ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"              
                                                              
           §                                      £           
           £§~=-«~=«~=~~~~~-»»=»=~«»~~=~===«»~«=~£# ¨         
           £                                      &           
                                                              
           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?           
                                                       ,      
       .   §                                      &           
           £#«~~~=~-««»«»»«-~»««~»-==~«~~»-««~~~«¤&           
       ,   @                                      #           
  %                                                           
           *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.              ¨    
                                                              
                                                      ,       
                                                         .    
                                                       ,      
         ,