Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

DEGRADATION

The Hawk Family (TV) Room 5:35pm

I’ll never feel sorry for You

You Big Black Box

of detestation

yet I see My Reflection

in You

in My Purple Sweater

I compliment Your Blackness

We are the colours

of SEX

inappropriate

with You taking hold

of

Me

by

Your Little Red Alarm Signal

to open My Legs

in front

of

You

FANTASY BOX

The Hawk Family (TV) Room 2:45pm

You stand before Me

in all Your Garish Black

quiet now because I don’t even know how

to turn You on

but I see That Red Light

on Your Lower Left

It speaks of Alarm

You say You need Me

My Innocence

yet You have outraged Me

by Your Silence when I asked

for direction

but I have

acquiesced

still clinging to what remains

of My Power

for I have what You want

& what I want from You now

are Your Insides:

I want Those Guts

I hate

I want to infest Them

& suffocate

under

Your Glaring Lights

Your Stabbing

Throbbing

Lights