[00:15.89]Spent the day with my dad and his old friend, Jim Wise.
[00:23.47]He's on house arrest and he sits around inside.
[00:30.98]We brought him food from Panera Bread, the snoring sun rolled out of bed.
[00:38.88]He talked about his ninety Corvette, his warehouse job, and his knee replacement.
[00:50.47]Jim Wise mercy killed his wife in a hospital at her bedside.
[00:58.17]And he put the gun to his head and it jammed and he didn't die.
[01:05.81]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.
[01:28.74]She loved the garden, and its budding rosebush.
[01:36.73]Spent the day with my dad, and his friend Jim Wise.
[01:46.16]Spent the day with my dad and his old friend, Jim Wise.
[01:53.60]He's got a big thick ankle bracelet and he can't go outside.
[02:01.17]He's got a long white Amish man's beard and a catheter.
[02:08.87]And he'll be headed to Mansfield prison by the end of the year for sure.
[02:17.32]His shelves are sticky old ratty boards.
[02:20.74]His albums are The Doors and Stevie Nicks. His kitchen cabinets are full of baked beans.
[02:29.34]His TV is sound, words flash across the screen and he stares off into dead air.
[02:37.28]Jim Wise killed his wife out of love for her at her bedside.
[02:44.62]And then he put the gun to his head but he failed at suicide.
[02:52.27]His trial's coming up in the fall and he sighed when we stepped out and we left.
[02:59.88]And I pointed out the pretty cardinal perched on the empty birdbath.
[03:13.76]The bright red cardinal, the empty birdbath.
[03:21.40]Spent today with my dad and his friend Jim Wise.
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