Snakebite
by
Kenny A. Chaffin
All Rights
Reserved © 2016 Kenny A. Chaffin
I worry. I worry
about doctors. I worry particularly about psychiatrists. Always being
responsible for others. Dealing with hidden, invisible terrors invited anew
into their office each half-hour. Each with their own issues. Psychosis,
obsessive-compulsive, depression, mania, bipolar, schizophrenia, eating
disorders and narcissism. Listening to them, trying to understand, trying to
help, trying to make them better. Absorbing all those lives, all those
problems, all those disorders into themselves. Extracting the insanity in any
manner possible. Not unlike lancing a snakebite, placing delicate lips upon the
wound, sucking the venom free and turning only to find no place to spit.
Kenny A. Chaffin – 2/24/2016
