July 6, 2012
Blood Vessels

i used to sell my blood plasma for only twenty buckaroos a pop because i’m just a little guy twice a week and the nurse would say you have such beautiful veins while touching my hair and collecting my blood platelets and brenda was the nice black lady i would let stab me because i had to watch out for evil polish ladies with needles they don’t care about nothing they don’t give a good god damn they can’t feel and when you have to go pee pee watch out for the passed out guy in the stall leave him alone he’ll be just fine and you’ll probably be cleaner not washing your hands and the guy next to me says is this going to hurt and the guy next to him says don’t be a bitch and the nurse laughs and says yeah don’t be a bitch and blood flows out of me into tubes miles of tubes through a rube goldberg machine and brenda says pump nicholas pump and i say i’m trying and everyone is trying pumping pumping we’re all moo moo cows with ravaged teets but i really need that twenty dollars i’m just a little guy its been two hours and i can see the fat in my blood coalesce at the top of my blood bucket next to me its like a pudding skin and they won’t let javon donate today he ate three bags of extra buttered popcorn last night and his blood just ain’t gonna flow right and the saline solutions gets pumped into me, and my arm is cold and feels like metal like jax from mortal kombat 2 but it feels more like a metal flipper than an arm and its going to fall off and maybe i’m having a stroke and sports center is still on its a tuesday and on the way out in the lobby a nice young man named greg sells me a bootleg version of the movie thor and he’s says there used to be a guy you could buy weed from but he’s doin time now so no not anymore and god dammit i need those two square patties of all american beef i need a jr. cheeseburger deluxe i’ve had a day thats right i’m going to wendys.

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