Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.

Women outnumbered men by two to one.

But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist.

We have erected, perhaps in place of other erections, entire structures of intelligibility and comprehensibility on and around the pandemic, structures that themselves render AIDS normative and routine: the business of AIDS, constructed and carried on around an impossible object, has become—like genocide, nuclear terror, racism, misogyny, and heteronormativity (or what I would prefer to call orthosexuality)—business as usual.