appetite

Australians decided that we wanted to be a Republic.
The Marquise de Sade said that Revolution, for a
Republic needed copulation. But only after
degeneration.
So the decay of my body, and the acceleration of my
ageing, and my sexual appetite, was merely reflective
of the world around me.
There was no need for panic, since no one wanted a
cure.
There was nothing anyone was willing to do.
People with AIDS on the television were now boring.
The tablets I was taking AZT and DDI were found to
be ineffectual and poisonous, at the Berlin AIDS
conference.
But no one wanted to anything except to say that
prevention was better than a cure.
An art student once told me that all people with AIDS
must die.
She was "over it."
But I thought the virus was over me!
Someone at a gay meeting once shouted "I wish they
would all hurry up and die so that we can get on with
gay rights."
I sometimes thought that I outlived my welcome.