he was a doctor Goddammit, they were looking at a doctor He came into the casino in a suit, the same suit every day and night dark gray shiny with grease around the elbows and lower back smelly patched up in places he kinda forgot what it was like to be sober and lately he kinda forgot what it was like to win at the slot machines he forgot how to perform surgery how to diagnose a patient forgot what the company of a woman felt like forgot what love was he was a machine that consumed cheap but strong alcohol Rubbing alcohol filtered through bread That stuff was 70% alcohol his liver knew it "Ah, pleaseeee, for the love of God, don't make me work with this stuff again," he would scream while playing at the slot machine and the bouncer would walk up to him and say, "Hey, hey, doc. Everything all right, man?" "Oh, sorry. That was my liver shouting through my mouth. He's a pussy." They say companies that deliver food get very suspicious when their regular customers, the people who order every day, stop ordering all of a sudden They even check on them Well, we don't deliver food but we got really concerned when our favorite doctor stopped showing up all of a sudden Maybe our managers would've checked up on him but there was no phone to call and no door to knock on Still, one of our boys went to the nearby park and asked the homeless men around for our favorite doctor and the man handed him a newspaper Shit, it wasn't even on the front page there was some political shit on the front page Nobody gave a damn about that article The real thing was a few pages after, not even colored HOMELESS MAN DIES AFTER TRYING TO PERFORM SURGERY ON HIMSELF IN PUBLIC RESTROOM That was a doctor with guts Guts pouring out of him straight into the sink and another cluster found in the toilet We framed the article and pasted it on a board in the back room of the casino our very own patron saint
This was a long one.
And -TWO- plot twists! I’m impressed (as usual)!
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Thank you, Ben ༚ꞋᴗꞋ༚
Appreciated!
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Oh so dark and twisted. 🖤
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Thanks
So were that poor guy’s guts in the sink…
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You’re welcome. 😨 addictions (and there are many some deadlier than others) are had to battle.
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Bravo!
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Oh, thanks ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
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Wow! You hit the rhythm and got a beat straight from the start. Love it.
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I’m glad you do, thank you ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
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Wow, dark but drawing
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Thank you, Harry ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ
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Very dark…. Wonderfully expressed, great work ❤️😊
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Glad you enjoyed it, Silent Poetry ⊂(◉‿◉)つ
Thanks!
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So welcome Mr 🙂❤️
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Daaay–amn!
The last line. Perfection.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Andrew. Thank you
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