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Ooh, baby baby
Jimmy should be dead by now, but he's on Instagram
instead. Forty beers a week caught up to everyone
but him, at a memorial in Evanston, they found out
Jim can sing. You can tell it's fresh, he lets the words out
careful, like this golden vocal was a sugarcube and all
the world a horse. Offscreen sometimes it's possible
to hear a muffled spasm, Jimmy’s manager or man
still holds the camera steady, like the substance pouring
out of Jimmy was uranium, like it's someone else's life
he's holding in his hands. Which hell, by now it is.
A standard written years ago by men who couldn't drink
from water fountains in the light of day because they matched
the night, which maybe Jimmy knows something about,
the way he nails the riffs you know this white boy
goes to church. You can't even be mad. In the comments,
Jimmy’s neighbor: hey Jim, this is Steven, as you may know
this was Susan's favorite song. Used to dance to it every night
before she got too sick. Going on seven years now. God,
just send me back, I promise I'll be good this time.
Jimmy should be dead by now, but he's on Instagram
instead. Forty beers a week caught up to everyone
but him, at a memorial in Evanston, they found out
Jim can sing. You can tell it's fresh, he lets the words out
careful, like this golden vocal was a sugarcube and all
the world a horse. Offscreen sometimes it's possible
to hear a muffled spasm, Jimmy’s manager or man
still holds the camera steady, like the substance pouring
out of Jimmy was uranium, like it's someone else's life
he's holding in his hands. Which hell, by now it is.
A standard written years ago by men who couldn't drink
from water fountains in the light of day because they matched
the night, which maybe Jimmy knows something about,
the way he nails the riffs you know this white boy
goes to church. You can't even be mad. In the comments,
Jimmy’s neighbor: hey Jim, this is Steven, as you may know
this was Susan's favorite song. Used to dance to it every night
before she got too sick. Going on seven years now. God,
just send me back, I promise I'll be good this time.