JIMMY KOMMA’S SEVEN-PART FIRE-DIARY SIDE-NOTE

PT. 9 of 9

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Jimmy Komma, 38, was last seen running
alongside LAFD Troop 403
Shouting I Am Rudolf Steiner The Forest Fire Starter,
“Just Be Hot About It!”

Nah
Heat bled in through his windshield,
The air outside looked like Jimmy’s insides when he inhaled,
Jimmy innied his cigarette lighter,
The last belly button he’d be poking for some time.
Love.
That was what he felt for his old model car,
Which still provided a coil of re-heatable iron,
That always popped out right on cue,
adding percussion to the song about smoking
Jimmy Komma was always listening to.
Some things, a woman simply cannot do.

“Seal the river at its mouth,
take the water prisoner”
POP
“Fill the sky with screams and cries,
bathe in fiery answers”
PUFF

Townes Van Zandt wrote about dying from lung cancer 20 years before he did.

Jimmy Komma turned up the volume and sped into the fiery mountain wondering if he’d ever become someone with a truck, a dog, and some kids.

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