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By Jack Joseph Smith

7 The only thing he remembered coming out of the some months coma was the Martin Luther ninety five theses. "This man says he is just Beck, he is headed for Gibbon's room," said the nurse. "Well I'm thirty five mother fucker," said Beck to the desk, "I think I'll take all these donations called painting down to my next whore house in the south, ladies." Taken by the arm by a white shirt Beck through the flash through a door. "To be fighting at my age." They wondered why his laughter was childish as they called upon a squide bent up for a rush. "What you want to get messed up in your own hospitble work for?" He asked it like a poker player. "See how short I cut my hair doctor? You think I don't know how to kill and at seventeen?" A little difficult to hold back. Beck shuned faces off and kept to his bow leggen it down through the halls. When he finally made it to Gibbons through glass and tube, he told Gibbons in no uncertain terms that he was fucken upset cause of the god damn time it was going to take for him to swing on him again. "What's this mother fucken coma stuff! He had sank and seen all of it. There was no God any longer. Just the ever. No pain when your under, just the ever. No sex, yet after the power there was still the ever. At a point in the journey his mind had had to let go. Of course life as he had know it was finished after that second. Beck trembled. He had battles for Gibbons in his mind. "Christ. I'm callen down the Hyde's," he yelled. The hospital shoked. The doctors of night began to shrink into holes they knew. When the second youngest Hyde came in all the nurses knew that they would never marry a doctor again.

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Gibbons remembers Martin Luther's theses after a long coma, while Beck disrupts the hospital on his way to Gibbons's room.

Beck threatens to fight him once he recovers. The narrator describes an experience beyond pain and sex, followed by Beck calling the Hydes to the hospital.


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Gibbons comes 'out of the some months coma' remembering only 'the Martin Luther ninety five theses', while Beck, 'thirty five', curses his way past the nurses and the 'squide / bent up for a rush' to reach him and ask 'What's this mother fucken coma stuff!' The page turns to what Gibbons saw under: 'There was no God any longer. Just the / ever', and ends with Beck 'callen down the Hyde's' until 'the nurses knew that they would never marry a doctor / again.'

Profane hospital farce frames a stark account of the coma as an encounter with 'the ever', where 'No pain when your under' and life as he knew it 'was finished after that second.' Beck's loyalty is expressed as threat and bluster, and the comic escalation of summoning the Hydes undercuts the metaphysical middle. The prose runs in long unpunctuated turns, with source spellings such as 'hospitble', 'shuned' and 'shoked' giving it a rough spoken texture.