*******, 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 *****."
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
****, it wasn't even on the front page there was some political **** on the front page Nobody gave a **** 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