M(eye) Red Rugs

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

Eye Still Have M(eye) Japanese Friend

In The Bronx

Who Remembers

M(eye) Red Rugs:

Hilen Remembers How Eye Paid For Them 

How A Japanese Man Named Yoshi

(From The Japanese Piano Bar

Where Hilen Played Piano)

Gave Me $2000 Toward M(eye) Art Project:

Bracelet For The Statue of Liberty

Then 1 Night

w/ Cheque In Hand

Eye Happened 2 Glance The Eternal Glow

of A Red Chinese Rug

Hanging Lit In A Manhattan

Show Room Window.

M(eye) Heart Melted.

Lured In

By The Rug Dealer’s Woolen Wares

Eye Was Sold TWO Hand-carved Rugs —

An Area Rug Paired

w/ The Rich Red From The Window —

& Had Them Delivered

2 M(eye) Studio Apartment

On St. Mark’s Place

Where Eye Slept On The Floor

In A Slippery Sleeping Bag.