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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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