Jimmy (Re-Edited Version)

Straight down the middle of the sidewalk 16 year-old Jimmy would stride every afternoon in his red baseball cap, eyes locked straight forward too, oblivious of traffic, the people sitting at the sidewalk cafes, the windows of shops, and then one day the public works guys came with their jackhammers and broke up the sidewalk for around thirty feet into big, jagged rocks, and when Jimmy came along that day he didn't know what to do, and froze. I got up from my table and went over to him, and he came and talked awhile with my girl friend and me, then was able to continue on his way home, safely on the other side of the abyss.