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By Jack Joseph Smith
The only thing he remembered coming out of the some months coma
was the Martin Luther ninety-five theses.
"This man says he is just Beck, he is headed for Gibbon's room,"
said the nurse.
"Well I'm thirty five mother fucker," said Beck to the desk,
"I think I'll take all these donations called painting down to my
next whore house in the south, ladies." Taken by the arm by a white shirt
Beck through the flash through a door. "To be fighting at my age."
They wondered why his laughter was childish as they called upon a squide-
bent up for a rush. "What you want to get messed up in your own hospitble
work for?" He asked it like a poker player. "See how short I cut my hair
doctor? You think I don't know how to kill and FIX & at seventeen? A little
difficult to hold back. Beck shuned faces off and kept to his bow leggem
it down through the halls. When he finally made it to Gibbons through
glass and tube, he told Gibbons in no uncertain terms that he was fucken
upset cause of the god damn time it was going to take for him to swing
on him again.
"What's this mother fucken coma stuff?"
He had sank and seen all of it. There was no God any longer. Just the
ever. No pain when your under, just the ever. No sex, yet after the power
there was still the ever. At a point in the journey his mind had had to
let go of course life as he had know it was finished after that second.
Beck trembled. He had battles for Gibbons in his mind. "Christ; I'm
callen down the Hyde's," he yelled. The hospital shoked. The doctors of
night began to shrink into holes they knew. When the second youngest
Hyde came in all the nurses knew that they would never marry a doctor
again.