Stream of Consciousness #1

at the dentist's

If you’re head’s in a fog, you might want to check the side-effects of the novocaine. The dentist rubbed it all over your gums last week. Don’t you remember? Or did she give you the laughing gas?

Her shirt was yellow like piss, but she smelled like flowers, like that shampoo your first-crush-in-middle-school used to wash her hair. Oh, the sweet scent of…