This poem was a test to write about HIV/AIDS in a new style. I was somewhat inspired by Allen Ginsberg and Truman Capote and their literary work. I'm hoping it works. I also left out all punctuation, and all capitalization and most, what I term "filler words". Again hoping it works. It is graphic, but it has to be. I just wanted to open my soul to the 'speaking dead', what Alice Walker calls "our Ancestors". This is what they had to say...
best generation afflicted in to insanity ravenous distraught helpless pleading
comatose in the inky asphalt streets another tireless sex-searching pervert or
so ya think poverty stricken tattered mindlessness hollow eyed darkness
contains angelic cold amber eyes imploring hallucinations of non-exotic puffy
eyed boys expelled no longer some pathetic bathhouse fairy an airline steward
as patient zero cowering unshaven Castro faggots in threadbare underwear imploring
for one more touch from strong creviced chin course grained face the purgatory
of glistening torsos obscure moody halls dreaming drugging shabby towel eyes
buried pearl colored ass arched an obscure ode to death nightly waiting for a
young taut hysterical body of endless cock and balls screaming streets
shuddering leaving me soaked pie-eyed for whoever takes me next lightening in
the mind shiftless sailors hustlers cemetery dawns strung out drug pushers
homeless beggars white trash farm boys with voices like thorny barbed wire
ranting roaring vibrations of obligatory orgasms whispering man whose name is never known
vanishing in to memories nightmares devil wallowing laughing howling eyes
widening disgorged suffering sweats faltering sexual ambivalent faith withdrawn cobalt bulb
shading track marks covering dried up arms contrived prick slavering bitch leaving broken hearts
vibrating cornholing visionary angels thinking madness ecstasy impulses weeping
undressing fucking desperate guys hungry gals seeking endless sex insulted
injured dog piss drying puddles disappearing shadows burning barroom cowardice
protesting nothing motherfucking rabid pacifist crying trembling shrieking
skeletons howling on there knees emotional whimpering simpering letting
themselves be fucked injected infected dragged
off no longer sure blowing or blown by who erupting spewing dangerous
liquid in to a negro Latina sistah believing her man ain’t down low fucking in
the brownstone mornings poverty ridden ghetto evenings disseminating semen
whomever come naked turbulence now physical manifestation dwelling personally
sobbing endlessly angelic naked whale wanged lover boys robbed fate piercing
trembling bastard red eyed in the morning sweetening trembling vicious tongue
prostitute buttocks recognized whoring cocksman pricks sticking out a
conjurer’s stunt thickest in the pecker parade abandoning semen slimed chalk
lines in heartless borsht tortilla petticoats picking themselves up through swamp ruined basement
johns lofty pimps shuffling in the bed sheets certainly no double-gaited big daddy only Alabama gaunt drug
addicted waitress serving corn mush to the unemployed taking shelter on Social Security Medicaid
Medicare Food Stamps Welfare covered in oozing Kaposi Sarcoma sores walking in
squatter rights unheated rooms just
beyond the garbage dump profuse nightly sweating seeing dramatic great suicidal dreams of ghosts of the fearing dead nameless buried
in the closet aides scrubbing derelict
bedpans of lofty patient stanzaed gibberish who cut their wrists twice lacking
self-righteous piety wallowing in brimstone behavior according to who groaning
toilets watching millions die falling on knees to silent Olivierian Reagan
shrieking Christopher Street queers––– only twenty-four frozen to death on the streets
of New York City
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