Joanna Gilman Hyde

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 !!