I was sitting alone at the bar

Nursing my drink so I could sit longer and fill time

Before I’d go home and cry myself to sleep

This guy sat down beside me

He ordered a drink with a fancy name

He’s cool, got it together

His phone rings

He reaches into his nice coat and pulls it out

‘Doctor Smith here’

He’s a doctor, of course, I’m an out of work seasonal worker, he’s a doctor

I hate him so much already that it hurts

‘Okay don’t panic Nurse Willson….we’ll get through this ..is the patient responding?’

It’s obviously a dicey situation and he’s so calm and cool

‘Listen, I have to go to my car and get the file..I need to see his file ..if I give you the wrong information….he could die..hold just for a minute I’ll be back’

He puts his phone down and runs out of the bar

I stare at his phone….

My mom always wanted me to be a doctor

I pick it up

It’s a nice phone

I cleared my throat

‘Nurse Willson?’

I say full of confidence

‘I’m back, okay listen carefully…open his chest cavity and immediately begin to aggressively massage the heart’

Nurse Willson is obviously a little startled

‘Just do it Nurse Willson’ I yell… ‘I’m the doctor and you follow my orders!!’

She asks a question about the patients’ leg

‘Nurse Willson, listen carefully. If you want your job, you do as I say, crack open his chest!..’

I looked at the door of the bar..nothing

‘massage his heart or he’ll lose the leg…I’ll be there in five minutes’

‘And Nurse Willson, know that I love to drink patients urine, it’s so tasty…..

see you in five’

I ended the call…put the phone back down and left the bar

I’ll call my mom when I get home and tell her that I’ve been thinking

Thinking about maybe finally getting into medicine

She’ll be so happy for me

Klaus had an idea

He wanted to pitch a new tv series

We went for a meeting

He told them his idea

He wanted to get some jockeys

And release them into the wilds of Alaska

In Grizzly country

And it would all be filmed

I think they liked the idea

Until Klaus told them the kicker

Unbeknownst to the Jockeys

They’d be wearing pants made of meat

And their little boots would be soaked in gravy for days

Before they put them on

Klaus thought this would quicken the interaction scenes

Between little men and big bears

They didn’t like the ‘kicker’

So we left

Klaus was mad

He packed up his 1977 Pacer with film equipment, gear and meat

And headed for Alaska

He was never seen again

I was walking down the street

And there he was

The homeless guy

It got me to thinking

Thinking that the world is a tough place

So many people don’t have what others have

So many people are struggling just to make ends meet

Then I got a little side tracked

So many flavors of smoothies to choose from at the mall

And I was thirsty

When I was having my kiwi/strawberry/mango smoothie in the food court

I started thinking again

So many people take their lives for granted

They have never suffered

And then I noticed someone had left their wallet on a chair

I took the cash out and threw the wallet in the garbage

And walked around the mall thinking again

So many people don’t have malls to walk around in

They can’t buy all the cool stuff that malls have

Then I saw a cool pair of shoes

I didn’t want to use up my cash

So I went back to the garbage and took a credit card out of the wallet

And bought the shoes on the card

And as I walked around the mall scoping for babes in my new shoes

I thought about the people in the world who don’t have nice shoes

And babes to scope

Walking out of the mall a kid passed on a skateboard

He gave me his board when I threatened him with a screwdriver

And on my way home I started realizing that little things can make a difference

People can help

So I gave the skateboard to the homeless guy

I felt so good

I helped him up on it and he started down the road

He lost control and veered out onto the street and was hit by a delivery van

I could have stayed and helped him out

But Klaus and I had meeting with a guy who sells guns

So I ran over and took the skateboard back

The homeless guy wouldn’t be needing it

He looked pretty banged up

And I headed off to meet Klaus

What a nice sunny day