Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Dr. Benway (From Wm. Burroughs' Naked lunch), with two Burroughs photos


 Dr. Benway. . .looks around and picks up one of those rubber vacuum cups at the end of a stick they use to unstop toilets.  He advances on the patient. . ."Make an incision Doctor Limpf," he says to his appalled assistant. . ."I'm going to massage the heart."
 Dr. Limpf shrugs and begins the incision. . .Dr. Benway washes the suction cup by swishing it around in the toilet bowl. . .
 Nurse: "Shouldn't it be sterilized, doctor?"
 Dr. Benway: "Very likely, but there's no time. . .Did I ever tell you about the time I performed an appendectomy with a rusty sardine can?"
 Dr. Limpf: "The incision is ready, doctor."
 Dr. Benway forces the cup into the incision and works it up and down.  Blood spurts all over the doctors, the nurse and the wall. . .the cup makes a horrible sucking sound.
 Nurse: "I think she's gone, doctor."
 Dr. Benway: "Well, it's all in a day's work."

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