Nothing To Ask For
The narrator, Dan, is over at his best friend's apt. in San Diego. HIs friend, Mack, is dying of AIDS and Dan has come over, as he often does, to help …
Dennis McFarland's "Nothing To Ask For": A man tends his dying friend. The concentrator "taking in normal filthy air, humidifying it, and filtering out everything but the oxygen." AIDS rendered in domestic detail, the quotidian work of dying.