The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:14pm
Oh Bug I Saw You Again
Against My Beautiful Sunset
Were You Following Me?
Did You Know I’d Been Writing
& Stopped Only To Look?
The Tomato-coloured Couch 6:10pm
The Banking World Today
is being taken over
by Big Women & The Small Men Who Love Them —
The Men of Stature
are being pushed out
by Bossy Females
& Their Nugget-headed Partners —
The Men of Stature
try to find pens
to write customers’ notes
on the backs of business cards
while the pretty-faced sized 12 & 14
Women In Charge
explain to Their Nodding Female Customers
There’s A New System
of labelling a check that skips the scanner
as an apparently arbitrary #906
The Hawk Kitchen 11:15am
My House Is Someone
I Have To Hold —
I Put My Arms Around Her
& Hug Her Tight —
She Is Someone
I Care About
I Care Deeply
For My Beautiful Home
& She Glows With Pleasure
Joanna Gilman Hyde 