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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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