Ayer, I was in Martin C. Rivas Public Hospital in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, hanging out in the ol' Labor y Parto. The morning was pretty normal for an L y P; lots of screaming, blood, urine, feces and babies coming out of women as well as babies screaming, covered in blood, spewing urine and feces. In the afternoon, después we got all that mopped ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to this really fancy restaurant and ordered a Coke. When the waiter brought out my drink, I immediately stirred in four sugar packets and began ordering food. I soon realized, to my chagrin, that my waiter wasn't writing my order down ( Read more... )

I recently purchased a book of poetry that a friend of mine wrote. I can't honestly say that I understand poetry and I certainly can't write it for shit, but now that I have paid legal tender for a book of it, I feel I can consider myself a patron. With this newfound patron status and a little "poetic" license I now feel justified when I go to ( Read more... )

Too much delicate,
Noisy paper around my
Fuckin' bad-ass
Muffin
That's, like, a metaphor
For medical school

Dr. Murder here, givin' weak MCs ( Read more... )

A life without ambition is like a GI system with no myenteric plexus; motionless and pointless ( Read more... )

Angiotensin
I isn't active, you know
Ang II is though, guys

Morphine, Nicotine
Cyclophosphamide; these drugs
Increase ADH

There is a bolus
Of people in the aisle-stairs
It's there everyday

Acidosis or
Alkalosis? I think it
Is metabolic

I recently turned 23. That's in years that represent how long I have been alive. This morning I couldn't remember if I was 22 or 23, and I had to do the math out on my phone's calculator function. That was just one of many signs that I have noticed that foreshadow my long spiral of brain deterioration now that I have passed 20. And my coolness ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think my head fills up with air ( Read more... )

I heard that I should be the change I want to see in the world; I apply this concept every morning when I turn off my alarm clock. But that's about as far as it goes ( Read more... )