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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.          $