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Table of Contents

Wild Kingdom
Rx Marijuana
Gender Matters
The Fabulous One
Mailbox
S.O.S.
Resistance Gets a Wellcome
Name in Vain
Go Figure
Like Butt-ah
An Aye for an Eye
To Russia Without Love
The Odd Couple
Secondhand Dose
Law and Disorder
AIDS in 2003
Catholic Cleanup
Until the Cure
Say What--December 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales
Chaka Treatment
Bear Essentials
Brace Yourself
All That Jazz
Respect Your Elders!
Bill of Health
Nunz With Attitude
POZ Picks-December 1997
Don't Mess With Mama
All Yesterday's Parties
The Light Burns Out
Peace of My Heart
Swing Your Partner
Once Upon a Lazarus
The Grim Reefer
In Case of Emergency
A DJ Saved My Life
Sweetness and Blight
"The First Cure"
Breaks for the Aches
Fishing for Supplements
When HIV Drugs Fail
Mary Fisher Gets Mad
Music Is Medicine


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The Voice of a Generation (12 comments)

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Requiem for the Queen of Disco (blog) (8 comments)
Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Shingles

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)

What is AIDS & HIV?

Hepatitis & HIV


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December 1997


Swing Your Partner

by Phil Meyer

Like a dance hall, this courtyard
smells of stale beer and sausage.
Dead leaves pick up their skirts
docey-doe just so high
until they drop, exhausted
to the pavement
then allemande into gutters
scuttering all the way.
The sun twirls a dingy crinoline,
its ragged hem
sticks to my neck.
Air tastes like cheap cigars
in noisy congratulations wrappers.

Time is an orchestra
on a ten minute break.
I hold my breath for the pay phone to ring,
my doctor calling back with numbers.
Sitting forward on the bench
I tuck in my shirt
run shaky fingers through my hair
primp for the moment
his words will slip their arms behind my back
join hands with mine
and take me for a spin.
The silence pleads for music,
a polka, schottische, square dance.


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