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#hiv poems

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How HIV OriginatedHIV was transmitted from chimpanzees to humans, / Eating chimp meat in Africa they thrived, / Most not realizing the sanctity they destroyed,

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AbortionAbortion / A screaming baby yelling / “Mommy! Please don’t let me go!”

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the lifelong subscriptionopen the door / a man stands there with a smile / the package he passes

@henk-holveck24

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Just ElevenEleven years old. / Skin stuck to her bones. / Can’t afford to get a cold.

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Save YourselfDirty, Dirty, Dirty. / You can feel their skin on yours and you can't escape. / You're so scared,

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you spin meI 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-jesser21

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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-gkristos56

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Red RibbonsDo you remember Red Ribbons / And the fear the world felt inside / Could AIDS be transferred through vision

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Crucify The WormWorm eats through to penetrate. / Trespasses, what dirty deeds? / What ichor is this to venerate?

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Hard to bearThe time has come, for me to fray / the long lost fortune peace and joy / and i peep all around to see a ray

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GiaDaughter of an American restaurateur, / She breathed in fashion's golden age, / On the ramp, she was hot like wildfire.

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RayonHer press on nails graced her sunken in cheek / Tracing the bone that seemed to cut like glass / Remembering days of endless driving

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you spin meI woke up to screams from a stolen razor. / Where is it? / It was a loud scream.

@JillianDJesser26

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A MOMENTI’m sure it has happened / To many other people before. / There comes a moment

@brent-kincaid84

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Why?Breathe... / I walk into your room, / And turn away from the caution sign that greets me.

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The Red RibbonThese 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-lawrence23

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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-sibanyoni9

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A man from BirtleyThere was a man from Birtley, / when I met him he really hurt me, / He kicked me in the face,

@lukeisthebest5

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statusremember i brought it up / and you told me i / was

@enidjerztlooper4

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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

@nomkhumbulwa81

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TWO SCORE YEARSStatic crackling ecstatically; manic pop / Transistor hissing and spitting; sideboard atop / First when there’s nothing…

@pofacedpoetry61

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5 Minutesif five minutes where dem / last five minutes of my life / if i died

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COVID-19 arrived on Red carpetThere were days / Where sex was love / where human bodies use to bond like atoms

@bongani-malambule-sibanyoni19

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