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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.           
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           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.