Fallen Souls

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replaced by regimens of

highly active antiretroviral

therapy: the drug cocktail

to stop AIDS, when my medication

stops working I spin into anxiety

I have few options left—at the

mercy of big Pharma my sunny

disposition tested—like when

new KS lesions emerge.


Or when the message was,

get fat don’t die? But does

my ass look good in these jeans?


We take our geno and phenotype

tests. I suggest clear focus from

gay men on panels to assist big

Pharma in naming the pills

we take every day. Maraviroc?

Really? Mmmm, sounds sexy,

so butch. And now undetectable

equals un-transmittable. We went

from patient zero to getting to zero


and quintessential gay couples

work together for optimal health.

But I’ll see you in the streets.



Tony Radovich