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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.                         
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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.           
                                                              
           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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