wrote this during and after I had a bloody nose. They happen occasionally when I'm stressed...tell me what you think please! thanks! it is suppose to be read in one stream unless ... are used if that helps...

Blood starts to seep out

Hands start to get shaky

Body becomes somewhat fragile

Belly start to form into intricate knots

Breathing quickens

Panic starts to set in

This cloudy feeling in my head is abnormal

This is not good not good not good

Remain calm

First reaction is to do what I’m told not to

Blow, put your head back

This is not good not good not good

All this time the stream of blood starts to slowly gain speed with gravity.

Not good not good not good

I have class in five minuets

I've run out of soft tissues

Toilet paper it is then

Hands start to get sweaty and shaky

Not good not good

Got to stop this sucker

A tingley feeling starts to come

After a few wipes of a leach-size clump of blood comes

This is not good not good oh man

Then the bloody monster starts a new with fresh blood

If only the doctor could take some blood samples now...

After the event

The skin is all tight

The skin is chapped

The skin is tender and easily discouraged from healing

But its not the end

Think of something else - good idea

Ok lets think...my nose is bleeding...

Umm...let see did I do all my homework for today's classes?...

Oh god oh god oh god...did I??? Oh jeez oh jeez..

Did I do the homework for the class that I'm late for?

Hey Captain Bloody! don't move or you'll have blood everywhere

Cant check to see if I did my homework then can I?

...lets focus on the breathing

...yes...ok

Wait!

Breath OUT of your Mouth not your nose...

...good three breaths...four...fuck it!!!

Let me bleed!!!

And be bloody!!!

I hate you blood vessels close to the surface!!!!

I can just see the obituaries now:

A lovely shy college student dies mysteriously from a bloody nose. Authorities are stumped as to why. The deceased was a reasonably healthy young person who ate their peas and carrots. The mother commented last night, that nose bleeds ran in the deceased's fathers genes and hinted that it was his fault. The father had no comment and his new wife looked gleeful.

She leaves behind a dog and four cats and an older brother. She was found clutching a ball of bloody one-ply toilet paper...