the emergency visit

i call my maid

for an emergency visit.

i need you, i tell her. stat.

i'll pay

double.

what time can you get here?

she laughs.

one p.m.,  she says.

bring a hazmat suit, i tell her.

it was a crazy night.

and bring a ladder.

there's a few

things

dangling from the chandelier.

lacy things

in black.

just vacuum around anyone

that might

still be sleeping.

i'm heading up the hospital

for an iv

and 

a vending machine snack.