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The Event

Charles Michael Craven

Like a foggy dream
I watch myself grab for the pill bottle –
at first, just a few each time.

I dial some numbers,
but all I get on the other end is answering machines.

My hand moves back to the bottles,
but this time a handful of green and blue pills
emerge as if a whale had decided to capsize a boat off the Pacific.

I ease them down with a gallon of water.

Then I repeat.

Blackness.

Then there are faces –
a love in Japan
the lady who bore me
my own,
and as if cold water slapped me with a backhand
I awake.

chest still pounding,
breath still labored,
mind now spinning.

Blackness.

New faces appear –
this time with scrubs on.

I look down on a person with EKG pads on,
drinking charcoal liquid
and receiving a shot of adrenaline.

The person signs a death certificate.

Blackness.

Then light.

A whole bunch of light.

An overdose

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