You can do everything —
Slacker lifeguard who can’t swim
Sweet sports doctor who can’t resist
An Uptown Girl during operation
Mad scientist whose food storms
Sweep the nation.
You play Jim Carrey on Saturday Night
Turn Fear into something more than fright
But my favorite role — though you can’t be pinned —
is a suicidal Skeleton Twin.
Your love for your sister, teacher and fish
Your Halloween dress, your one shattered wish
Shining bright in the bar, dancing slow, feeling wild
Red lips and fake tits
Like when you were a child —
You cast aside the words that wound you
Slicing deep like knives
You knew what she meant
And jumped in the pool
To save one, and then two of your lives.
Rock on, Bill Hader
You’ve got the full-spectrum heart —
Invite us to laugh in the sunshine
Then prod us down into the dark.
By: Allison Gems
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