Big Boys Don't Cry

Big Boys Don't Cry
xcentricdiff 2024 - copyright CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

In response to a poem from my friend Jim LaVilla-Havelin

“Big boys don’t cry”
the mantra often heard in my youth
to this day for some ends.
The few warned:
it could cripple a generation of men.

Your voice rings true
born by electrons electronically
encoded compressed for size.
The best I’m able:
your poem brought ears to my ties.