Frank Papaycik Poems

I was crying in my beer last night,
The suds were rich and thick
More tear than beer foamed the head.
O’Douls doesn’t provide much kick
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Do nothing to destroy the joy
That was Yesterday - the day
Of the Birthing of your Manchild
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Does any one come to a Court Room
Together - it seems - One-by-One
Court Rooms most certainly are not
Noah’s Arc - or de Iris
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Five minutes sobbing
I want my Mommy

Close your eyes
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He stared me in the face
Cold hard - a stare I’d never
Faced before - I don’t need
You - don’t want to need you
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How do you cry over losing
SomeOneThing you never lost
How do you decry the going
Over SomeOneThing that never went
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I dwell in other lands
In ways that others wouldn’t
The lands - the City down
The street the stop on the El
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A mouse came to our house One Day.
She nibbled at the base - She disconcerted us.
She had some friends along with her.
We banished them away.
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It was a Saturday - Again

Late - hot- that AfterNoon.
A man - but more a Manchild
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Amir poured forth A blessing
On my head
Jube Domine Benedicere
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