One Trip To One Clinic
The CDC is developing new projects “to defeat AIDS once and for all” they claim. Not one of those programs is destined for Appalachia. Not one.
We are left with a world of breathtaking indifference.
We do not exist. We are not important.
We can drive all day and all night before we can reach a single clinic that will see us.
Long drives in the backs of trucks down dirt roads of somewhat naked in the lamplight. The drainage ditch finds no purchase here. You do not pack a suitcase.
The creeks attract the dragonflies.