Frank Prem

Franks Psychiatry 4 #50: this somebody\'s boy

and he talks to me
this young man
in a babble of words

 

I say nothing
he\'s too high

 

a touch of macho
surrounding an elevated mood
racing fast and furied
until he stops

 

suddenly

 

dead quiet

 

and his face starts to move
into creases and crinkles
reshaping while he struggles
his eyes go glassy

 

and then it\'s all sadness
this boy
this somebody\'s little boy
is doing it tough

 

because it\'s hard to be a man
all the time

 

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