The AIDS epidemic doesn't always make sense. In fact, it often challenges the very ways we come to make sense. The usual lenses -- academic or otherwise -- fail to bring its immense devastation into any clear focus. Yet, despite the radical epistemological and emotional blur, we nevertheless discern that a chasm has opened before us and that multitudes have fallen, are falling, into the abyss. We have lost too much: friends, family, communities, networks, vast constellations of vital human potential and heartfelt connection are gone. We grieve them.