"let their gimmicks go rotten"
From the song by Jim Carroll and featured in the movie Suicide Squad.
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan What does this mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMWPO4Bup8 |
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The song is about the important people in his life who died.
Allen Ginsberg was an influence to Jim Carroll. Ginsberg "G-berg" did die from hepatitis. I don't know who Georgie is. |
Re: "let their gimmicks go rotten"
The identities of some of the friends who are named in the song are known (https://www.catholicboy.com/chapter4.php), but not Georgie, as far as I am aware.
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OK. That IDs some of the people. But I still don't get the line "let their gimmicks go rotten". Which is my main question. And I did not mark this as answered unless I hit the button by mistake. So I am setting back to unanswered for now.
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Re: "let their gimmicks go rotten"
1) I'd like to take back my conjecture that G-berg = Allen Ginsberg. He didn't die from hepatitis until 1997, and this song was produced in 1980.
2) Gimmicks = drug paraphernalia according to the https://slangdefine.org/g/gimmick-3fa3.html The sharing of dirty needles gave them hepatitis which killed them. 3) G-berg and Georgie were just friends of Jim Carroll. |
Originally Posted by OHForums (Post 2379872)
2) Gimmicks = drug paraphernalia according to the https://slangdefine.org/g/gimmick-3fa3.html The sharing of dirty needles gave them hepatitis which killed them.
Ok. That makes sense. I did search but never saw that sites answer. |
Re: "let their gimmicks go rotten"
In my opinion, G-berg and Georgie could represent broader ideas or societal ills. Their rotting and subsequent death could be metaphors for the decline or destruction of these values or the consequences of a society focused on immediate gains rather than long-term well-being.
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