a few weeks ago
i was going through
some youtube videos
and found a video of wanda jackson
and jack white on letterman
then i found another more recent one
probably from last year
she was singing in what looked like a school gym

where is jack white now i thought
where the **** is jack white
did wanda jackson get too old for him
jack white is nowhere to be found
now that she's eighty

is eighty how long you have to wait
for **** to get real
**** got real for him
when wanda turned eighty

****'s gotten way too real for me
walking past the same parking garage
where i pulled out of 13 years ago
into huge dents and scrapes
on the passenger side
of a black honda that got stolen
8 years later

i looked up her heart trouble album

i had been listening to heart trouble
real loud
when i pulled out of that parking garage
into dents and deep scrapes
on the passenger side

i was too cool to care
when the man got out of his truck
dismayed at the damage
i said no, that had always been there
but didn't bother to really look

finding out later, of course
**** just gets so eighty
when wanda jackson plays her pink guitar

back to my heart trouble
the songs on that album
only had a few hundred views