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?
Ah, those last six lines! Take me there!
You can take the Nova Star ferry from Portland Maine and I could meet you.
your poetry gets better and better.
Thank you, and thank you for reading.