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Joanie Fritz Zosike's avatar

Tom baby

Baby Tom

With a hint of Connecticut sneer on his right upper lip

Just a hint, or could it be the beginning of a smile

Sweet Tom baby

Bad boy Tom with poet's heart

Fantomas with actor's heat

Fan-boy Tom with his devotion to the historicals

Fantastic Tom and his 20-something groupies

Contemporary Tom and his baby boomer buddies

Tom coherently contemplating contemplation

Tom, I miss you more than words can say

With your wisp of curls

With your love of men, your trust of girls

Your velvety chest hair proudly sprouting

Your vision of revolution, shouting

into the crowd and trusting it's not the void

Tom baby, Tom boy, Tom-tom-tom

Beat that big drum, baba-T, summon

the evolution of revolution with joy juicy

Joy, Tom magnificent friend and mentor

Your scholarly, photographic memory box

Gentle, honest, sparse, profuse

Tom, I miss you more than words can say

Joanie HF Zosike, 2/21/25

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Is this Tom Walker?

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