Cautionary Poems
Michael Cope
 

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A Cautionary Tale for Adults.

It really fucks me up to say

what happened just the other day:

Innocent Jake, enticed by sin,

forgot to use a latex skin:

amnesiac re HIVs,

or over-trusting ARVs,

he was, shall we say, indiscreet,

and, caught up in the moment's heat,

forgot the other's point of view

as thoughtless people sometimes do.

The moral? No, there isn't one.

Men are entitled to their fun.