The Stabbing

The story starts down in the skids, a drug dealers cozy nest,

Knives are flashed and one goes down, bleeding from the chest.

Units all respond Code Three, the scene bathed in coloured light,

To investigate the aftermath, of another Skid Road fight.

Doug Bain arrived among the first, grabbing two men at the scene,

A witness and a victim, no suspect had been seen.

But this story gets quite twisted, as Skid Road stories do,

The victim now the suspect, the witness victim two.

To hospital they both were rushed, now the witness he may die,

No way would he incriminate, the suspect other guy.

So Doug maintained a vigil, in the operating room,

In case the witness would confess, or go on to meet his doom.

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The shift was quickly ending, Doug called out for relief,

To stand by with the victim, in case he came to grief.

Enter 1580 Foster, he's an exemption candidate,

Five years he was a Mountie, now another expatriate.

He strode into the surgery, his confidence was high,

As Doug explained procedures, the blood began to fly.

Four Doctors were now working, inside the victim's chest,

From this rapid bleeding casualty, they were put to quite a test.

Seems that while he worked back East, in his tunic Scarlet Red,

Foster never had experienced, a man this close to dead.

But soon he will be used to it, where violence is supreme,

The skids is also known as, a giant size crime scene.

Foster then glanced over, as this drama was played out,

Stood his ground a minute more, then quickly looked about.

Then the lights grew dimmer, as his eyes rolled back inside,

And Foster, former Mountie, was now laid out there beside.

PC 664 T.J. Gowdyk 90-10-19 (81)