The Attempts at Formation of the Illusory Tribe: AIDS Ragtime

This is a country of planes, trains, and automobiles. AIDS is accelerating in small towns and cities because the inhabitants of those places believe a number of things:

One: that this virus has a sexual orientation and a moral code
Two: that the virus obeys borders and stays within large urban centers
Three: that if the person you fuck is sweet and kind and sexy, they could not possibly have AIDS

One in four people in the Bronx are HIV positive

There are ten thousand people with AIDS living on the streets of New York

The Vatican says it’s a more terrible thing to use a condom than to get or develop AIDS

AIDS is up 40% among teenagers in just two years

One in every twenty-five babies born in Brooklyn are HIV positive

Cardinal O’Connor says that all people, regardless of persuasion, if they refuse the teachings of the Catholic Church and contract AIDS they only have themselves to blame