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what would probably end up<br />
being a 4 day stay at the ward.<br />
They got us into a room pretty<br />
fast down there at “urgent care.”<br />
I was surprised. People hadn’t<br />
started blowing their fingers off<br />
yet I surmised . . . we were early<br />
enough . . . we got right in . . . a<br />
nice little private room . . . no pop<br />
pop crackle fingers gone yet. 4 th<br />
of July mayhem! We’d beaten<br />
it . . . no eyes hanging out of the<br />
old socket from a bottle rocket . . .<br />
not yet at least. No gore or burns!<br />
I was hoping not to have to see<br />
any of that . . . I was content to just<br />
sit in that little room and wait<br />
with Bess. She wanted me<br />
there . . . and that’s fine . . . a<br />
person on a bummer in their<br />
noggin needs an advocate. I’ve<br />
gone on in to the bonker hole<br />
nuttier than a chink college<br />
student on test day and couldn’t<br />
talk right to beat the band<br />
(whatever the hell that means . . .<br />
I have no clue . . . but I like to<br />
think of bands being beaten . . .
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