LOOK, I’LL TELL IT LIKE IT IS
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:00pm
A Song Came On The Radio
@ 2:22 Today, an appointed time
apres circuitous counter-clockwise route
around Sobey’s Emergency Cart Corral
It was a song from HIM (Lady Gaga HIM)
“She’s So High Above Me”
& instead of making Me burst into tears
(as I did Thirty Years Ago when presented
with a dozen white roses by a bartender who left)
It made Me Smile
(in the privacy of My Car)
& Now I Have A Song
Joanna Gilman Hyde 
Emergency Cart Corral? What exactly is that anyways?
The central cart corral in the parking lot. It has a yellow sign with red letters which read:
In The Event of An Emergency Gather Here