The Tomato-coloured Couch
December 24, 2024
7:25 am
Eye Live Now w/ The Gentilest of Cats:
Milk-mustached Molly sleeps @ M(eye) Head
& dabs M(eye) Face w/ 1 Paw
Claws Intact
while Moulan, The Beautiful Siamese
w/ Great Blue Eyes
had Her Claws ripped out
15 years ago
before She was dumped
off @ The Shakespeare House —
She likes The Warm Floor
in The Hallway
where Their Litter-less Box
gets cleaned every time They pee —
& then there’s Jerome,
named by Eliza —
The Lion of A Cat
w/ Great Sad Eyes,
Who Found His Way That 1st December
Eye was Here w/ Dr Blair —
Found His Way Through Snow & Ice —
all HE desires
is to be lovingly petted
& combed.
All 3 are resting now —
Jerome w/ His Paws crossed
on The Far End
of The Tomato-coloured Couch
Eye picked out on sale
from a local furniture store
14 years ago
when Dr Blair said Eye could have
Any Piece.
Moulan sits beside Me,
purring freely
& Eye’m not sure where Molly is,
though She has taken
to lounging in The Arms of God Chair
found on The Side of The Road
set up in The Utility Room
down in The Basement
which is almost ready
to be displayed
as 1 Formal Room of 14
Here in M(eye) Hawk House
Living Gallery
Open for 2025
2 Show M(eye) Art
M(eye) Ancestors’ Art
M(eye) Friends’ Art
& 2 Show How Eye Live
as A Single Woman
in A Perfect Kitchen for 1
in A Perfect Bedroom
w/ leftover graffiti
M(eye) Kids thought Eye should paint over
Eye Believe Eye Am Happy Here
Now in This Place of Staged Living
–Eye have not ventured out
through The Ice that came
The Last Night of Volunteering
@ Yarmouth Creatives
when Eye bought A Painting
by A New Friend
2 Hang in M(eye) Little Dining Room
butt neglected 2 pay for It.
It’s called Love Jacket —
an intricate construction
of delicately painted strips of paper
shaped to form a Michael Jackson Jacket
against a Background of Gold,
framed w/ more delicate paper strips
of Predominantly Pink —
& Eye Love It,
Hanging Above Eliza’s Greenish Swirl
from When She Was A Kid.
She and Her Brother Peak
& Peak’s Girlfriend Chantal
are in Campeche Mexico
now, for XMiss
& Peak’s 37th Birthday
on December 27th —
Eliza is not seeing enough
of Her Work-aholic Boyfriend Haime
equipt w/ His 11 Year Old Daughter
Eliza has yet 2 meet —
butt They are All Having A Good Time
as Eye can see in The Photos They Send
on Facebook —
The Social Contraption
Eye begrudgingly partake in
Here w/ The Cats Eye neglected
last summer
when Eye did not want to be
in This House —
& used any excuse Eye could find
2 Abandon My Place —
then Eye had no apparent purpose
& drove & drove to Friends
& Galleries & Volunteering & even
tried to get A Job
@ My Kids Reccomendation —
got 1 w/ The Tri-county Regional Centre for Education
& lost it 6 days later
when Eye wrote
supposedly revealing poems
about The Students Eye found Inspirational.
The day Eye was officially fired
(March 28th, 2024)
was The Day Dr Blair’s Cat Cami
Died in Her Condominium —
Died while Eye was being interviewed
as to why
a “breach of confidentiality”
would prohibit Me from working
w/ TCRCE ever again —
She was still Alive before The Video Call
@ 10:00am
& was completely Dead when It was over
20 minutes later.
Cami got put out in The Scrub Spruce
behind The Hawk House
entombed in Her Condo
as Eye may be someday
(if Eye die)
entombed by The Sea
like Annabelle Lee
Dead After Living
Here On The Hawk
In A Show House
built by neighbouring fishermen
as Someone’s Dream House
25 years ago, fatefully 2 House All
The Contents
of A Life of Creation
& The Lives of The Cats — Mumbo,
Molly, Moulan, Jerome, Swampie, Cami, Abby (briefly a foster cat Who died not wanting Me to leave Her Side)
& M(eye) Great Big Wonderful Astro —
All Who Have Joined Me
w/ M(eye) Pet Gull — Gully The 3rd
& His Various Companions & Offspring —
Here In Our Existence
of Spectacular Beauty, Desireous Longing
& Quest .
Merry XMiss — May It Be The Last
Joanna Gilman Hyde 