big deal

Make a bet
Pass it on.
Spin the cylinder
Cock the hammer.
Head steady.
Hold your breath
Tummy tight
Hold your breath
Squeeze
Maybe you’re lucky
Maybe you’re dead

Brains sprayed on to the walls
Ceiling & floor
Shit urine oozes out
Shouting knocking, banging on the door

we finished the whiskey

& the last man standing won the pot
coughed, gagged & threw up
blacked out but survived the night
woke up bed
clean sheets
still shooting him self in the head

what happened to the dead
terrible hangover on the left side the head
still shooting himself in the head
so he said, ‘where are the dead?'

In the morgue,

Sarah the cute night nurse said,

'hello.'

So he opened his eyes, s

urprised and said,
‘Wow, I won the bet.I’m Fred

& I’m not dead.’

‘Hey nurse, what’s your name?’
She said you can call me Sarah.’

Fred said,

‘Hey Sarah, it is your sacred duty
to tell the relatives that their loved ones,
the corpses of those dead losers
in shining black body bags
with heavy duty zips.
My old friends are now all stiffs.’

Sarah smiled gently patting Fred
on the head said,

‘Yes Fred.’

2008