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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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