When you pour hot
deep fryer grease
On your arm
You get your attention.
Your skin ripples
Like bubble wrap
Popping into pain.
Your best friend
Drives you
To the local E.R.
For your very first
Shot of morphine.
That night,
After Wild Turkey
And a couple of pills
You drowse through
The football game
Take off your bandages
And let your scalded arm
Scat through the sudden,
Impromptu party.
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