Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was Someone Screamed Country [a special report] (May 2015).
Incompatibility & Antibiotics Above the Equator
By Steven Minchin
You were the first boy I knew
to die of chlamydia
and run away to Brazil
You were right when you left
And I was left wondering
if you’d come back
to Albany, or the clinic
Come back to your senses
or just pass on again