As night unfolds in a Metropolitan Emergency Room you never know what might come through those automatic sliding doors....
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Addict
You mirror my quiet desperation with your violence; your visceral mass of aching pulsating need, bloody and vulnerable. You don't care who sees you, judges, who steps around. Your wide, gaping want, gulping and sputtering. The now now now of it, a metronome of addiction.
Is an Emergency Department clerk who likes puddle jumping in the rain, peanut butter cookies and opera.
Please Note: All opinions are her own, and all names/dates/times have been changed to protect patient confidentiality.
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