Joanna Gilman Hyde

"Good Morning, World!"

M(eye) Dearest Luke:

The Hawk Utility Room

January 3, 2025

6:15 am

You could have been housed

here in M(eye) Living Gallery —

in “Peak’s Room”

decked w/ ART in The Basement

2 do Your Prolific Writing

2 work on Your Book titled

“PILLS”

(which Eye am eager 2 read)

butt You’re Caught In The Trap

of The Psychiatric Industry

which does not recognize

Your Talents

does not recognize

Your Exquisite Individuality

& has You pumped down

on 5 different medications

all of which Eye believe

are harming Your Wonderful Brain

in an effort 2 “stabilize”

Beautiful You —

You Who have lost Your Mother,

Your Grandmother, Cat & House

in Shelburne, The Place

You Loved, butt which turned

It’s back on You

because of Your “Psychiatric History”

— You R Stigmatized —

like Me, like M(eye) Brother

(The Late Howard Talbot Walden Hyde)   

& Eye am left at Odds w/ The Program

which encases You Against Your Will —

Or R U Complacent?

How Can That Be?               

Get Out Dear Luke — Get Out — —    

The World Needs You —

Your Unique Creativity —

Your Sensitivity —

Your Wonderful Humour —

Your Enthusiasm for Life —

& EYE HEART U                                    

L  — U — K — E !!

The Only Dance

The Hawk Queen Bed

January 3, 2025

4:26 am

The Only Dance

Eye Ever Had

w/ M(eye) X 2nd Husband

was Awkward At Best —

(We weren’t even married yet)

Appearing In Public

@ The Barrington Lions Hall

Hosted By The RCMP

@ Xmiss Time

w/  Me In The Dress of Midnight

(what did Eye ever do w/ That

Clingy Butt Loose Item of Black

Embossed w/ Drips & Globs

of Silver?)

The Floor Seemed 2 Bounce

& Eye Felt Fat —

Was Eye?

Eye Did Wear A Size 13 Pink Chiffon

when We were mistakenly married

August 14, 2004

@ a ceremony which was more than

Awkward —

everyone left the reception

@ Dr Blair’s Office

for Me to clean up

like a bad dream

— there was no honeymoon —

(supposedly because Dr Blair

was recovering from back surgery

2 weeks prior)

& Eye went along w/ All

This Bullshit —

riding on a horse The Next Morning

w/ M(eye) Attractive 2nd Cousin

from Jacksonville, Florida

Who must have wondered

What Was Wrong.