Printed in the Providence Journal
Issue of the week: "Don Juan Nushawn"
by Seth
Brown
Diseases are often a problem today,
and AIDS is among the most feared.
It was once thought to be a sickness of the gay,
but now this issue has been cleared.
Anyone can suffer from this epidemic,
it strikes slowly at first, but then spreads.
The result is a horror that's very endemic,
and something that everyone dreads.
In Jamestown, N.Y., a man named Nushawn
was the bearer of more than bad news,
The gift that keeps giving when the giver is gone
is the thing that he chose to abuse.
With knowledge that it would have dire consequence,
he had sex while he was infected.
For acts such as these, there can be no defense;
any mercy would be misdirected.
Another quandary that soon after transpired
is the fact that in school or at home
Safe sex is not taught, nor is news of Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome
It's hard for the town to address what's at stake
when their morals dictate a taboo,
But to hush up this problem would be a mistake
since it could end up affecting you.