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Jimmy

from Imperfect Man by Rick Waines

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A portrait of a self I might have been.

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Jimmy pushed a steel spike, skin deep, dull point, pushed inside.
Ulcerated brainwaves, cool breeze, calm seas.
Drawn with a need filled with promises hoax, bought with counterfeit hopes and
the rings of his beautiful wife. Yes he had one.
Pull that needle out of my dead body, over my dead body.

Jimmy was a brave man, broke nose, toothless invectives
spat across the broke tile green bile, warm embrace.
Drawn with a needle filled with three square meals, a bed without bugs
and a blanket to cover his wife. Yes he had one.
Drape that blanket over her dead body, over her dead body.

Chorus
But for the grace of your god
But for the grace of your god
But for the grace of your god
His god, her god
What god

Jimmy was a wee thing, yea long, from head to toe and Jimmy’s father swung first thought last
what thought. And just like a Russian Matrioshka doll the habits of the son emerge from fathers hands. Fingers and wrists conspire to make fists used to beat out ta rumpty tum tum.
Wife as a drum. Yes he had one. Wrapped around my dead body wrapped around my dead body.

Bridge
Jimmy’s mother died first leaving Jimmy to thirst while jimmy’s fathers meat hooks
hung little Jimmy hung little Jimmy by the scruff of his neck
Just like jimmy’s father’d done, just like jimmy’s father’s father’d done, Just like Jimmy’s father’s father’s father’d done, how bout yours, how bout yours, how bout yours.

Jimmy dug a fresh hole, quite deep, skin cells pushed aside and jimmy drug himself in, feet first
Last fuck last fight last rights. And Jimmy disappeared into his gaping wound. A room without sun thatched roof covers roots fed by the son who pruned his own shoots from his families pine beetle tree, quite rotten seed.
Yes he had some, planted in my mothers dead body. In my mothers dead body.

Jimmy was a great dad.

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from Imperfect Man, released October 31, 2011
Rick Waines, Ryan Guldemond, Niko Friesen, Jasmin Parkin, Molly Guldemond, Dougal Bain McLean

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