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Gay or
straight, there is no room for complacency regarding HIV-AIDS. We all owe it to
ourselves and any potential sex partners to be responsible about sex and use a
condom.
It might
help if HIV-AIDS were not still something of a taboo subject with many people...
Education
has to be the key to raise HIV-AIDS Awareness, in which context I
wholeheartedly support organisations like DAMSET whose volunteers created a
mural for people who have died of AIDS across Dorset; it involved going into
schools and talking about HIV-AIDS. The tiles on the mural were designed by
schoolchildren.
I would love to see similar projects worldwide:
[See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKzi9VRjuq0 on my You Tube channel OR search for 'Autobiography of a Beach' on the blog where the video accompanying it is also available.)
PREDATOR, INVISIBLE ENEMY
I have no
need to look far for prey,
just
follow footprints in the clay
where
careless minds feed on a heat
in the
blood as if it were for water,
rice or
bread, answer to an everyday
need; no
problem for a seasoned
tracker
such as I, descending upon
bodies
nursing what surely has to be
the
world’s worst inhumanity
Unable to
tell where my axe will fall,
some
convince themselves I am
no real
threat at all, rather something
akin to a
bogeyman, hardly a figment
of the
imagination but best consigned
to a cosy
corner of a mind less likely
consider
why so many get so careless
in the
first place. Besides, who wants
to look a
bogeyman in the face?
Men,
women and children cannot run
from me
unless privy to such ways
of the
world even I cannot pin down,
kill
slowly or, for a while at least,
subject
to slavery; every act, thought,
bought
with their sweat and tears,
save for
those who have the measure
of my
intention and can readily access
the means
of best protection
In the
blood, tracking footprints any size,
I, the
predator, who am HIV-AIDS
[From: On The Battlefields Of Love by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2010]
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