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Cool Jimmy

By Jimmy Pappas

Cool Jimmy

Run-of-the-Mill Jimmy
wants to be Cool Jimmy,
like when he he's in a parking lot
and he hears someone
turn on a car alarm system,
and he looks up,
but no one is within
thirty feet of the car
or even facing it,
so he wants to shout out,
Hey, who just set that car alarm on?

But he doesn't say anything
because he knows that
would be too weird,
so instead he thinks,
Wow, that was so cool!
because when Run-of-the-Mill Jimmy
sets his car alarm on,
he holds the control
with two hands,
stretches his arms out
as far as they will go,
aims at the door with one eye,
and presses the set button
so hard and so long
that the lock door tabs
pop up and down,
the lights flash on and off,
and the alarm blares,
which only panics him more,
so he presses all the buttons
in rapid order
sending the trunk lid up,
the gas cap cover flying open
until finally he gets it
all under control
and shouts to the crowd
looking his way,
It's okay, it's my car!
I'm not stealing anything!



Then he puts his head down,
walks away until
after about thirty feet,
he imagines himself setting
his car alarm system on
without anyone knowing
who did it, and that he is
the one and only
Cool Jimmy.






Article © Jimmy Pappas. All rights reserved.
Published on 2017-09-18
Image(s) are public domain.
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