for the recently diagnosed

this is for the recently diagnosed, i should be writing an advise column, been there/ they’re going to tell you a lot of things/ these will all be lies/ stop asking me why they lie i have no fucking idea/ they want hope they have to have it because they are desperate and so they make it up/ an aids-free generation is right around the corner what corner your house has no corners because it was constructed by pigs with straw/ so explain how it is that big pharma is going to forego the huge, gargantuan profits it makes from antiretrovirals/ but no/ they will send henchman out to cut your legs off/ nurses are the worst/ wrapped up in folded arms, she’s staring at your stumps bestirred/