Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

“WRITE IT BEFORE SUPPER”

The Tomato-coloured Couch 5:43pm

Write It —

there is No Such Thing As Schizophrenia

Those Voices are valuable

They’re trying to tell You something:

Like Write This

There is no suitable “new” name

for schizophrenia

It is not a condition of derangement

There Is Purpose

in The Brain’s Meanderings

The Meaning of Life

may be found in Its Depths

Note:  One of my favourite songs just came on the radio —

You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate

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The Tomato-coloured Couch 4:40pm

Sterling Silver Beef

displayed under The Kiosk Sign

@ Sobey’s

I bought two slabs

after saying “no” to two samples

of second-rate cork flooring

@ Wilson’s Home Hardware

— I put The Beef

in My Black Basket

& paid for It with a fifty in Speedy Checkout

behind a man who’s head was shaped

like David Wilson’s

MARCH

The Hawk Queen Bed 9:11am

I want to go to sleep

with the wind

up in My Turret

at the end of twenty years —

I want to sleep to seventy

& wake up to the noon

of My Old Age

no longer marred