Aaron Smith
speaker
2,298 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Aaron Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Vials of septra and AZT line the bedroom dresser like a boy's toy army poised for attack.
You're red, my blue, and the casualties are real.
Now the dimming in your man's eyes and mine, our bones ache as the muscles dissolve, exposing the frit the fragile gates of ribs, our last defense, and we calculate pensions and premiums.
You are not yet forty five and I not yet forty, but neither of us for long.
No senior discounts here.
So we clip coupons like squirrels in late November foraging each remaining month or week, day or hour.
We hold together against the throb and jab of yet another bone from out of nowhere poking through.
You grip the walker, and I hobble with the cane, two witnesses for our bent generation.
I mean, there's so much just amazing writing and when he says
The bedroom dresser, the AZT and the sceptre that are lined up like a boys toy army posed for attack.
I mean, to use that, you know, culturally
masculine um image and then also our bent generation.
Like their bodies are literally bent over and then bent as in queer.
I mean there's just so much really wonderful, surprising writing and painful.
Just a really painful it's painful.
And everybody at that time calling it a gay disease.
So the thing you were waiting to s to start, then everyone's saying that was wrong and that's why this is happening and it's just, you know, it
make can make one insane.
I always say poems have their own making inside of them.
They're like ours poeticas.
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