Wake Up Jimmy

 
Jimmy is drunk
passed out on the street
it’s raining

he had a fight with his girlfriend
who is pregnant
and seventeen
wants to keep it
along with her faith
somehow
her friend Trudy spilled it to her parents
who called the cops
statutory rape or something
but Jimmy’s already
got a warrant for parking tickets
had a job downtown
see
and
he got laid off yesterday
something about stealing office supplies
Jimmy said
he had to take some work home with him
that would have been OK

except
he had been caught photocopying his butt a month ago
already on thin ice for that
when he went to cry on his girlfriend’s shoulder
she wanted to see if the mole on the copy matched the real thing
one thing led to another
a Polaroid camera got passed around
he barely remembers something about strip Candy Land
Jimmy was out her door by ten
got drunk at the Rock Bottom Brewery
and managed to make it home by two

anyway it’s raining now
it’s supposed to rain all night
Jimmy’s face is in a pothole
full of water