Jim Wise

Spent the day with my dad

And his old friend

Jim wise He's on house arrest

And he sits around inside

We brought him food from panera bread

The snoring sun rolled out of bed

He talked about his ninety corvette

His warehouse job

And his knee replacement

Jim wise mercy killed

His wife in a hospital at her bedside

And he put the gun to his head

And it jammed and he didn't die

He went to trial all summer long

And his eyes welled up

When he told us about

How much she loved the backyard garden

And the budding rosebush

She loved the garden

And its budding rosebush

Spent the day with my dad

And his friend jim wise

Spent the day with my dad

And his old friend

Jim wise He's got a big thick ankle bracelet

And he can't go outside

He's got a long white amish man's beard

And a catheter

And he'll be headed to

Mansfield prison by the end of the year for sure

His shelves are sticky old ratty boards

His albums are the doors and stevie nicks

His kitchen cabinets are full of baked beans

His tv is sound words flash across the screen

And he stares off into dead air

Jim wise killed his wife out of love

For her at her bedside

And then he put the gun to his head

But he failed at suicide

His trial's coming up in the fall

And he sighed when we stepped out

And we left And i pointed out the pretty

Cardinal perched on the empty birdbath

The bright red cardinal

The empty birdbath

Spent today with my dad

And his friend jim wise