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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.                   
                                                              
                                                              
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