novembre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hands lend a sense of normalcy she grapped the phone and talked to you. she was more drunk than i've ever seen her, wobbling down sidewalks and using lamp posts as ballasts. push your weight on me, i can take it. today she woke up and her dehydrated dry-heaving body almost slipped into diabetic shock. there were IV drips and various shots, those threadbare hospital blankets. he helped her prick her finger to test her blood sugar level. he kept his eyes on her the entire nine hours.
he leaned back in his metal folding chair and wished he could have a bed, too. crossed his legs at the knee and we shared a soda. watched the nurse fumble with needles. afterwards she told me that the ambulance driver was hot; it is her theory that all ambulance drivers are attractive. he overheard, he just smiled. 11:37 pm - 08.16.04 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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