BLACK & WHITE

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

The Tomato-coloured Couch 7:17pm

How Can I Stop

The World

& Say I Am All Things:

I Am The Second Coming

Of Christ —

I Am The Anti-Christ

I Am Black Jesus

waiting out this mess

in My Cathedral-ceilinged

Living Room

where no one dies

cats are cared for

& The Radio Plays

Pretty Songs?