start drinking heavily

my doctor
stands back from the table
and sighs.
he has a green mask
on.
surgical gloves
and booties around his white
sneakers.
a white smock covers
his green
loose fitting hospital
garb.
he doesn't want
to get near me, not
even to look into
my mouth or
to listen to my heart.
you've got it bad,
he says. my oh my.
I haven't seen a case
like this
since Richard
burton and liz taylor
got married for
the fourth time.
I pretend that i'm not
that old, that I don't
know what he's talking
about, but I do.
I don't know what to tell
you he says, but my advice
is to start drinking
heavily. he laughs, sorry,
that's from
animal house after flounder's
car was demolished.