Aaron Smith

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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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 4.

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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · Queer Emergence · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, they're just pre-booked. voice-verified

And one of the poets I want to read actually just won the Donald Haw prize, and their book's coming out in the fall. voice-verified

So I thought that was exciting. voice-verified

And you want me to go ahead and start with that person? voice-verified

Yeah, please. voice-verified

So the poet is John Benani, and I want to read this poem Elogy for Gay Tone du Gas. voice-verified

And he was patient zero that they've debugged. voice-verified

Bunked actually, he did not give everybody AIDS. voice-verified

And this poem deals with that. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And yeah, so here we go. voice-verified

Who picked up men wherever he went, who donated his blood, who I am the prettiest one, who donated the appalling saga of patient zero, who zero meant O as in letter O, as in out of California, and though AIDS came to the United States in nineteen fifty nine, and before that Central Africa about nineteen fifty. voice-verified

Who did not slaughter a chimpanzee for meat? voice-verified

But who the monster who gave us AIDS donated his blood to slides to lab test to electron microscopes? voice-verified

Who the Columbus of AIDS let the tip of the needle draw his blood for more a vaccine escape and answer, but who was a strange guy at the eighth and house? voice-verified

Howard Bathhouse, a blonde with a French accent, who said, gay cancer, maybe you'll get it too. voice-verified

Although, who at that time could not have possibly known that what he had was transmitted through sex? voice-verified

Though a publicist who, for a book on the subject, stated, It's the worst kind of yellow journalism, and said, Don't blame Randy, who admitted to maybe. voice-verified

Taking it up to compete for sales, even though patient zero, the man who brought AIDS to California, who's zero now coming to mean the first who spread it, despite being the first who did extend one bone white arm, who made a fist and who could at once at first see the vein. voice-verified

So he's mixing through there different sort of headlines and things as well. voice-verified

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