Kevin "I am sad today because now when I fuck up       I will cause pain to you as well," said the HIV-positive drug addicted boy-man       to his newly-beloved one afternoon six months before he overdosed on his cocaine."

On Hearing That AIDS Activists are Passing Out Clean Needles in My Neighborhood Every junkie is like a setting sun. Neil Young In the name of fighting this fatal disease, how can you so assist in the sure suicides of the forsaken lotus eaters of Hollywood Blvd., the long slow decline of the living dead?

Entre la Espada y la Pared Where I grew up affluently, it was assumed naturally that the poor were inherently bad: their impecuniousity due to indolence and ignorance, a lack of moral fiber. Where I live now as an adult, the poor are disadvanteged: mere helpless victims of circumstances and forces beyond their control, apologized for. These were both lies.