"She just keeps coming here for the attention"
Buddy, I've got some bad news. This is the emergency room, people *only* come here for the attention.
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Radio Chatter
I read the news today oh boy!
Actually, I heard it.
Unfolding in real time on the RADIO RADIO!
Radio chatter, pitter patter, Ratta tat RATTER.
Another GSW
Medic 5 coming in Code Blue with a middle aged female GSW. Entrance and exit wounds in chest. Currently unresponsive. Showing PEA on the monitor. No pulse palpated.
Compressions in progress. 1 minute ETA.
A day in the life of a small city in
Southeastern New Mexico. Festering like a diabetic ulcer in the desert lockdown sun. Famous for aliens and drivebys.
Violence permeates the fabric of parts like a sick dye.
Coloring areas with names like Chihuahita, The Devil's Triangle, Fruitland.
The radio starts chattering again.
"In route with a middle aged male GSW. Still responsive. Entrance and exit wounds noted in abdomen. Vital signs stable. IV access obtained."
Seems alright. Stable GSW. Since when the hell is a GSW stable. This isn’t normal. Shooting people isn’t normal.
A day in the life.
The excuses pour like Novocain from lips. Numbing us to the reality of life in this forgotten abyss.
"Its only in the ghettos."
"It only happens to people who deal drugs."
"It only happens in Chihuahita, Devil’s Triangle, Fruitland."
Jesus loves the little children ... unless they have tattoos. Isn’t that how it goes?
All I hear is radio cha cha, radio choo choo, radio chatter.
Carnage on The Asphalt
In route from 285 south with a 35-year-old who was riding a motorcycle and collided with a pickup truck. This is a level 1 trauma. Patient is bleeding profusely from his lower extremities. Is awake and alert. For now ...
Little crosses everywhere and not a cross to blame. Little crosses everywhere and how we wear our shame.
There are so many crosses= so many lives lost senselessly.
Ostensibly we say, "It’s the truck traffic."
"It's the speed."
"Well, they were young."
Why are we okay with this?
Killed His Spirit Then His Body
Video killed the radio star.
The radio chatters.
2 units responding to a suicide attempt.
That's it
Lots of staging and no transport equals...
suicide success.
Families cry for the lost.
The toxic cocktail of ample guns, a hopeless city, an interminable lockdown, and a mental health crisis presents a predictable situation.
The anonymous blood mixes with the desert dust as no one wants to talk about the taking of life.
Euphemisms fill the local obits. “left this world before his time." "Died suddenly"
"Passing was unexpected"
Tell it like it is.
Blasted his brains into orbit to live amongst the stars.
Couldn't take this world and took himself out of it.
Decided to mix his blood into the soil of his origin to join his ancestors.
At least it sounds better.
Sometimes we need to be poetic about death for those who couldn't handle life.
We are the guardians of their memory and the flames of their vigils.
A day in the death of ...
ROSWELL, NM. FUCK YOU. I LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS YOU.
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so here's what i'm thinking
it's not kindergarten, guys. it's sixth grade.
bigb and pearl are definitely the "average nickelodeon fan" and "average wings of fire/percy jackson/warrior cats fan" alliance
grian's got wheelies. the clockers keep trying to make him use them on the playground so he trips and falls and EATS SHIT LOSER!!!!
(bdubs said that. etho taught him it and bdubs doesn't know what it means)
btw, the clockers are absolutely those sort of. smartasses who are meaner, cooler, and better than you.
bdubs is an art kid, cleo is one of those writing/reading kids with no thanks to some kid named joe hills (lie) ... and scar... well actually scar is just very charming
grian and jimmy are half brothers. watcher something or the other i don't really care i just think their dynamic is super funny
i'm stealing the "boogeyman is an intense game of tag" and making it more of a cheese touch thing
team ties are all in advanced math. except for skizz, who after immediately getting tagged by both scott and bdubs, was put under the protection of them. impulse holds a goddamn grudge, and no eleven year old is willing to test his patience
martyn and scott were those two friends in the friend group that never interacted as much as they interacted with others, but now that ren's moved schools and jimmy's migrated friend groups, they're suddenly best friends?? they team up with the clockers and occasionally taunt jimmy, trying to win him back
pearl and bigb are definitely tree climbers, pearl brings eight wings of fire books into the tree with her every day and bigb consistently watches in astonishment as she climbs the tree with one hand
they spy on everyone from up there
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