"A Is For AIDS" by Tolu Ogunlesi

A IS FOR AIDS

A is for AIDS,
What else?

Barbers
Who don’t sterilize
Are Barbarians

Condoms
Are not always
Competent.

Don’t climb,
You idiot!

Every man
For himself,
AIDS catch
Mr. Ignoramus.

Foolish men and women dig
Their graves
With their sexual organs

Get out
Of your rut of procrastination
And face the Test
Now

Hold
That hormone
Down.

Infect yourself
With a little
Common sense

Juju will not
Protect you

Kill yourself
Some other way
If you really must die

Love Life
In your love-life

Marrying is better
Than Burning

Nobody ever
Says AIDS –
Until it’s too late

Only your spouse
Should find the way
Down there

Please fasten
The seatbelts
Of your pants

Quit discriminating
Against Persons Living
With the Virus

Raping virgins
And infants
Will not cure anyone

Support the fight
And spread the message

Think
Before you tug
At that zip

U never know what
Day the virus
Is in your neighbourhood

Very soon you will
Find out that AIDS isn’t
America’s Invention To Discourage Sex

Who wants to be
A statistic?

X is for “unknown” –
What you become
If you underestimate
The virus

You still don’t believe
AIDS is real, you idiot?

Zebras have bigger brains
Than the unprotected.