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How HIV Originated
HIV was transmitted from chimpanzees to humans, / Eating chimp meat in Africa they thrived, / Most not realizing the sanctity they destroyed,
@Atul
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Abortion
Abortion / A screaming baby yelling / “Mommy! Please don’t let me go!”
@Zbefresh
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the lifelong subscription
open the door / a man stands there with a smile / the package he passes
@henk-holveck
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Just Eleven
Eleven years old. / Skin stuck to her bones. / Can’t afford to get a cold.
@bunmiagusto
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Save Yourself
Dirty, Dirty, Dirty. / You can feel their skin on yours and you can't escape. / You're so scared,
@madisonmn
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you spin me
I woke up to screams from a stolen razor. Where is it? It was a loud scream. The end comes swiftly, anyway, / and, if there are no razors around, it comes even faster. / At the top of the mountain, the anger flows to the valley, and there is no scream.
@jillian-jesser
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No Condom No Sex
(Sex Worker to a house wife -->) / Entertain not for me hatred / It is only for a daily bread
@alem-hailu-gkristos
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Red Ribbons
Do you remember Red Ribbons / And the fear the world felt inside / Could AIDS be transferred through vision
@jennyfrenzy
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Crucify The Worm
Worm eats through to penetrate. / Trespasses, what dirty deeds? / What ichor is this to venerate?
@pj-poesy
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Hard to bear
The time has come, for me to fray / the long lost fortune peace and joy / and i peep all around to see a ray
@shadyteddy
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Gia
Daughter of an American restaurateur, / She breathed in fashion's golden age, / On the ramp, she was hot like wildfire.
@Atul
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Rayon
Her press on nails graced her sunken in cheek / Tracing the bone that seemed to cut like glass / Remembering days of endless driving
@kylepowers
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you spin me
I woke up to screams from a stolen razor. / Where is it? / It was a loud scream.
@JillianDJesser
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A MOMENT
I’m sure it has happened / To many other people before. / There comes a moment
@brent-kincaid
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Why?
Breathe... / I walk into your room, / And turn away from the caution sign that greets me.
@Grimmest
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The Red Ribbon
These charcoal dark shadows hang beneath eyes of carbon blue. / Carrying the memories of sinister scenes, washed clean, but stained with the salt of regret. / Shame.
@victoria-lawrence
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South Africa (Jozi-Soweto)
A journey from Soweto to Jozi have turned a suicide note, / Written like a poem through every inch the Shosholoza cover. / We survive anyway,
@bongani-malambule-sibanyoni
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A man from Birtley
There was a man from Birtley, / when I met him he really hurt me, / He kicked me in the face,
@lukeisthebest
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status
remember i brought it up / and you told me i / was
@enidjerztlooper
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Rethinking myself....
I was beginning to know who I am, / Or so I thought until now; / But now im thinking again
@nomkhumbulwa
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TWO SCORE YEARS
Static crackling ecstatically; manic pop / Transistor hissing and spitting; sideboard atop / First when there’s nothing…
@pofacedpoetry
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5 Minutes
if five minutes where dem / last five minutes of my life / if i died
@maxneumann
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COVID-19 arrived on Red carpet
There were days / Where sex was love / where human bodies use to bond like atoms
@bongani-malambule-sibanyoni
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