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        TONY BEYER

 

            Men's Gossip

 

 

all our sons are men

capable of operating

independently in life

they watch us enter

the age of angioplasty

bifocals and prostate scares

without thought we were them

or as we are

they too will be

yet ideally

to whom else

should we speak

our fears and longings

preparing them

and ourselves for the dark

the generation gap or trap

persuades us into

this dance of opposites

who might rather be brothers

at a median age

seated together

warm firm flesh

between the skeleton

and the clothes

giving voice

to the beauty

death makes piquant

and by the likeness

in our faces

showing liking