§    ketamine, ket, "horse tranquilizer"             
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.             dreams*. apparently made for making         ,   
           holes. they may be dark  and monochrome.           
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           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.           
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           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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