Poetry and AIDS-related Dementia

 

 

Poetry and AIDS-related Dementia

 

AIDS and crystal have fucked my brain

Harder than a man insane

My intellect did wither and wane

My words are greeted with disdain

 

The poems once came to me in dreams

They wandered-up my pants’ inseams

Or came from clouds of lightest creams

Such gushing, rushing cerebral streams

 

And I was made of Arrogance

That always dared to take a chance

Assume the heroic stance

But did I ever really advance

 

This life’s a ball of puss to lance

Take me out of my morbid trance

Rid my mind of castrating can’ts

Proceed without a passing glance

Copyright, David Gottfried, 2013