Jimmy was being pulled <br />By a hormone <br />Through his turbulent adolescence. <br />The hormone’s name was “Bob.” <br />Bob was a bad hombre. <br />He picked fights with little pimple-faced kids <br />And then forced Jimmy to do all the dirty work <br />Throwing punches and getting kicked in the eye and so forth. <br />And Bob used to whisper nasty things in Jimmy’s ear <br />About bras and garters and quivering thighs <br />Jimmy got so excited <br />He hung out at the pool hall, drank beer and punched holes <br />In the cigarette machine. <br />And the worst thing Bob did was tell Jimmy <br />That he was a man. <br />And Jimmy spent the rest of his misguided life <br />Trying to prove it. <br /> <br /> <br />(Previously published in Pigs 'n Poets, Feb-May 2000)<br /><br />Laurence Overmire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bad-hombre/
